Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff.
- A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen.
- Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech.
Esimerkit
- Fustian, of which I have found only one entry before 1401, occurs frequently in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It appears to have been a ribbed cloth.
- Claudius [...] has run his description into the most wretched fustian.
- Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | fustians |