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Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull color, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.

A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen.

(figuratively) Inflated, pompous, or pretentious speech or writing; bombast; also (archaic), incoherent or unintelligible speech or writing; gibberish, nonsense.

(alcoholic beverages, archaic) A hot drink made of a mixture of alcoholic beverages (as beer, gin, and sherry or white wine) with egg yolk, lemon, and spices.

Made out of a coarse fabric made from cotton and flax.

Of a person, or their speech or writing: using inflated, pompous, or pretentious language; bombastic; grandiloquent; also (obsolete) using incoherent or unintelligible language.

(obsolete) Imaginary; invented.

(obsolete) Useless; worthless.