Pronounced: ek-SUNG-uh-late, verb
Notes: Great word! (but not at all what I thought)
Yesterday’s word
The word fustian is
- a strong cotton and linen fabric
- high-flown or affected writing or speech, or even anything high-flown of affected in style
First usage
Our word came into English in two phases: the first definition arrived around 1200, but the second one didn’t come about until the 1500s.
Background / Comments
An early documented usage of the second meaning comes from the play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlow, written in 1592/1593. In Middle English, our word was fustian/fustain/fustein and came from the Old French word fustaigne. It came to Old French from Latin, but there is some disagreement about the origin.
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