fustian

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 1, 2021 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>fustian</strong> &#149; \FUSS-chun\&nbsp; &#149; <em>noun</em><br /> <p><strong>1 a :</strong> a strong cotton and linen fabric</p> <p><strong>b :</strong> a class of cotton fabrics usually having a <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pile#h5">pile</a> face and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twill">twill</a> weave</p> <p><strong>2 :</strong> high-flown or affected writing or speech; <em>broadly</em> <strong>:</strong> anything high-flown or affected in style</p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge…. Twenty-five years later, William Hazlitt, who was also in residence at the time, still remembered his first sight of the future poet laureate, a tall 'Don Quixote-like' figure, quaintly dressed in a brown <em>fustian</em> jacket and striped pantaloons." — <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/14/radical-wordsworth-by-jonathan-bate-review-fleet-footed-and-inspiriting">Rachel Cook, <em>The Guardian</em>, 14 Apr. 2020</a></p> <p>"The last couple of Lyric 'Rigoletto' productions have ranged from muddled to disastrous, but this one, using handsome sets that originated at the San Francisco Opera in 1997 and deftly staged by revival director E. Loren Meeker, works to tell the story directly, without fuss or <em>fustian</em>." — <a href="https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=4d4c8635-2515-455b-8802-ab19e33968b6">John von Rhein, <em>The Chicago Tribune</em>, 9 Oct. 2017</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Fustian</em> first entered English in the 13th century, by way of Anglo-French, as a term for a kind of fabric. (Its ultimate Latin source is probably the word <em>fustis</em>, m