Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FUS'TIAN, n. [Fr. futaine; Arm. fustenn; Sp. fustan, the name of a place.]

1. A kind of cotton stuff, or stuff of cotton and linen.
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; a swelling style; bombast. Fustian is thoughts and words ill sorted. Dryden