Fustian, rubbish, trash. The cloth so called ought to be made of goatsʹ hair, but is a mixture of wool and silk, wool and hair, or wool, silk, and hair, etc. (French, camclot; Arabic, camlat.) (See page 206, Camlet.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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