A fustianman is a maker of a kind of coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. Fustian, or "cotton velvet," is a thick, twilled, cotton cloth with a short pile or nap (OED).
"Let thy left eye be diametrically fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigis nostris insistere. Clown. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian."
Christopher Marlowe, The tragical history of Doctor Faustus (1590).
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