Fustian Sentence Examples

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  • The once considerable manufacture of fustian has declined.

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  • Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills.

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  • Coal and salt are raised, and the other industries include fustian, towel, couch, chair and nail factories, iron and brass foundries, stone quarries and corn mills.

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  • Jean, said to be derived from Genoa where a kind of fustian with this title was made, is a kind of twilled cloth.

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  • It was used as the headquarters of the fustian weavers during their strike in 1906-7.

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  • Fustian was a cloth with a warp of wool or linen and a cotton weft.

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