Also fustinella, fustanelle, (badly) fustanelli. [a. It. lingua franca fustanella, dim. of the name by which the garment is known in Greece and Turkey: mod.Gr. φούστανι, Albanian fustan, believed to be a. It. fustagno FUSTIAN.] A stiff full petticoat of white cotton or linen worn by men in Modern Greece.
1849. Curzon, Visits Monast., xviii. 266. Here, as I was riding quietly along, I heard an exclamation in front of ‘Robbers! robbers!’ and sure enough, out of one of the thickets of box-trees, there advanced three or four bright gun-barrels, which were speedily followed by some gentlemen in dirty white jackets and fustanellas; who, in a short and abrupt style of eloquence, commanded us to stand.
1854. B. Taylor, Lands of Saracen, 359. The spruce young Greeks, whose snowy fustanelles were terribly bespattered, came off much worse.
1866. Felton, Anc. & Mod. Gr., II. II. vii. 407. The Pellecaria … walking jauntily along the Street of Æolus … in tasselled fez, embroidered jacket, snowy fustanelli.
1882. G. F. Armstrong, Garl. fr. Greece, Brigand Parnass., 10. You see him yonder … his fustinella white and bright as it should be.
Hence Fustanellaed a., wearing a fustanella.
1853. Felton, Fam. Lett., xli. (1865), 310. He was a fustinellied fellow, with a villainous … look.
1883. A. J. Evans, in Archæol. (1884), XLIX. 24. These fustanella’d peasants.
