flowery vs fustian

flowery

adj
  • overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance 

  • Decorated with or abundant in flowers. 

  • Pertaining to flowers. 

fustian

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

  • Made out of fustian (noun sense 1). 

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

  • A class of fabric including corduroy and velveteen. 

  • 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 colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear. 

How often have the words flowery and fustian occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )