fustian

英语

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈfʌs.tɪ.ən/, /ˈfʌs.tʃən/

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• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈfʌs.t͡ʃən/

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• 断字：fust‧i‧an

名词

1. 粗斜条棉布
   • 1882, James E[dwin] Thorold Rogers, “On the Price of Textile Fabrics and Clothing”, 出自 A History of Agriculture and Prices in England […], 卷s IV (1401–1582), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC，页号 568:

     Fustian, of which I found only one entry before 1401, occurs frequently in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It appears to have been a ribbed cloth. […] On one occasion (1443) it is described as 'white ribbed fustian.'

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   • (Can we date this quote?), James Joyce, Ulysses:

     His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets

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2. 夸大的话
   • (Can we date this quote?), Alexander Pope, “Translator's Preface”, 出自 Iliad:

     Nothing that belongs to Homer seems to have been more commonly mistaken than the just pitch of his style, some of his translators having swelled into fustian in a proud confidence of the sublime, others sunk into flatness in a cold and timorous notion of simplicity.

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形容词

1. 浮夸
2. 粗斜条棉布的
3. 夸饰的
4. 夸大的