fustian, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

fustian n.

[SE fustian, a kind of coarse cloth made of cotton and flax; cognate with satin n. (1a)]

alcohol, usu. wine or port.

1780		‘Birmingham Sal’ Lover’s Jubilee 4: From Liverpool to Manchester, / At Fustian I did delve it.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Red fustian, port wine.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1841		W. Leman Rede Sixteen String Jack I iii: My half-mad foreman was the ruin of you, by infusing his fustian into your thick head.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1882		Dly Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 1 Nov. 3/3: They always drink fustian.