[ 'fʌstɪən ]
■ noun
1》 a thick, hard-wearing twilled cloth with a short nap.
2》 pompous speech or writing.
Origin
ME: from OFr. fustaigne , from med. L. fustaneum , from (pannus) fustaneus 'cloth from Fostat ', a suburb of Cairo; sense 2 perh. from the fact that ~ was used to cover pillows, implying that the language was ‘padded’.