Noun: fustian
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Of fustian he wered a gypon / Al bismotered with his habergeoun, / For he was late ycome from his viage, / And wente for to doon his pilgrymage. (He wore a fustian tunic, / all smothered [with rust] from his habergeon / because he'd lately returned from his travels / and went to make his pilgrimage.) [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 75-8:]
Nouns inflected like fustian
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fustaine, from Medieval Latin fūstāneum.
Verbs referencing "fustian"
English Nouns
fustian.
Translations