Look up: farthingale

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   Farthingale
   A farthingale was a hoop made of whalebone or wood and used in its most extreme form in the 17th century as a support for widespreading skirts. The farthingale originated in Spain and was the precursor of the crinoline.
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   farthingale
   [n] - a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally
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   Farthingale
   Far'thin·gale noun [ Middle English vardingale , fardingale , from Old French vertugale , verdugade , French vertugade , vertugadin , from Spanish verdugado , being named from its hoops, from verdugo a young shoot of tree, from verde green, from Latin viridis . See Verdant .] A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other li ...
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   farthingale
   A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat. 'We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things.' (Shak) ... Origin: OE. Vardingale, fardingale, fr. OF. Vertugale, verdugade, F. Vertugade, vertugadin, from Sp. Verdugado, being named from its hoops, fr. Ve ...
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   farthingale
   noun a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries
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   Farthingale
   `Farthingale` is a term applied to any of several structures used under Western European women's clothing in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to support the skirts into the desired shape.
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   Farthingale
   • (n.) A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.
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   farthingale
   underskirt expanded by a series of circular hoops that increase in diameter from the waist down to the hem and are sewn into the underskirt to make ... [1 related articles]
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