FUST

The same as Frust, which see. FUSTIA^r. (Fr. fustaine.) A thick twilled cotton, of which velveteen, corduroy, and thickset are varieties. (See Velvet.) Fustian is generally dyed of a deep olive or lead colour. Fustian, in Criticism, is applied to writings remarkable for a forced elevation of style, or for an exaggerated or unnatural use of metaphors or other rhetorical figures. [s. 494]