fustanelle (fustanel)

[ dim. of NGr. φουστανι = Bulg. fushtan = Serv. fushtan, fishtan = Alb. fust an, a petticoat, It. fustagno, fustian: see fustian.) A petticoat or kilt of white cotton or linen, very full and starched, worn as a part of the modern Greek costume for men. It is Albanian in its origin. I flew over his [a donkey's] head and alighted firmly on my feet, but the spruce young Greeks, whose snowy fust a nelles were terribly bespattered, came off much worse. B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 359. fusteric (fus'tér-ik), n. [ fustet , with altered term., + -ic .] A yellow coloring matter derived from fustet.