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Fustian

A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

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Cloth 76% connected

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fabric 76% connected

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Grandiloquence 76% connected

The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.

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Grandiosity 76% connected

The state or quality of being grandiose,

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Magniloquence 76% connected

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Ornateness 76% connected

The quality of being ornate.

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Rhetoric 76% connected

The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.

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Textile 76% connected

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

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Bombastic 74% connected

Alt. of Bombastical

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bombastic 74% connected

Alt. of Bombastical

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Bombast 92% connected

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Claptrap 92% connected

A contrivance for clapping in theaters.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rant 92% connected

To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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