Fustian
Fustian (fus"chan; 106) , noun
[Old English fustan, fustian, Old French fustaine, French futaine, Italian fustagno, from Late Latin fustaneum, fustanum; compare Pr. fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fustāt, that is, Cairo, where it was made.]
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 , adjective
1.
Made of fustian.
2.
Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. — Walpole