11. In a petition to Mary I, " fustian of Naples " is mentioned. 12. The town's growth was given further impetus in 1620 with the start of fustian weaving. 13. Silk, wool, and fustian fabrics were being eclipsed by cotton which became the most important textile. 14. The original medieval fustian was a stout but respectable cloth with a cotton weft and a linen warp. 15. Campion meets up with Max Fustian , and finds himself entertaining strange suspicions of the odd little man. 16. Fustian also refers to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, starting from the time of Shakespeare.17. Operations Ladbroke and Fustian had cost the British 1st Airborne Division 454 dead, 240 wounded and 102 missing. 18. These prose romances were written in a mock-Medieval style that modern readers may find arduous and fustian . 19. Lotte tells Lettice that she has twenty-two letters of complaint about her false recitations at Fustian House. 20. As the title character, Chaykin is thoroughly melodramatic and fustian -- a Wolfe in anything but sheepish clothing.
