Fustians [noun]

It was the principal market for the fustians which were manufactured at Bolton, Leigh and the places adjacent.

Humphrey Chetham, the founder of this institution, was a dealer in fustians in Manchester early in the seventeenth century.

Cutting or cropping fustians by hand is a very laborious and delicate operation.

The next process to which fustians are exposed is steeping in hot water, to take out the dressing paste.

Item iiij pair of fyne shets and ij pair of fustians for the said trussing bedde.

Philip and Mary passed an act to encourage the making “of russels, satins, satins-reverses, and fustians of Naples.”

No keepers in green fustians, no array of thoroughbred dogs, but instead four plain setters with a touch of shepherd in them.

They also brought cotton wool from Smyrna to work into fustians and dimities.

The sheets of Rennes cloth and also fine fustians; the counterpane, cloth of gold, furred with ermines.

Fustians shall always be shorn with the long shear, so that it can be worn for at least two years.