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Definition of Fustians
1. fustian [n] - See also: fustian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fustians
Literary usage of Fustians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early English Cotton Industry: With Some Unpublished Letters of Samuel by George William Daniels, Samuel Crompton (1920)
"The fact is that the development of the cotton manufacture is definitely associated
with the manufacture of fustians. In the middle of the eighteenth ..."
2. Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures by George Savage White (1836)
"A brief notice of the patriotic individual, who undoubtedly made the first ''
Jeans, fustians," &c. in America, will be inserted in the Appendix ..."
3. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"The sets of reeds in which fustians, velveteens, and cords, are usually woven,
are those of 32, 34, or 36 beers in 24£ inches, each beer containing 19 dents ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"In later history, it plays au important part as one of the independent Lombard
cities. Manufactures of silks, fustians, linens, hats, &c., are carried on to ..."
5. Co-operation as a Business by Charles Barnard (1881)
"fustians AND PAISLEY SHAWLS. IN the co-operative store the member claims interest
on his money and a ..."
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