Fustian /(fŭs"chan; 106)/

Fus·tian

Fustian

n.
  1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
  2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
    Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian.

Fustian

a.
  1. Made of fustian.
  2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.