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Farthingale   /fˈɑrðɪŋgˌeɪl/   Listen
Farthingale

noun
1.
A hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries.





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... presently exclaimed, "They were bearing the dishes across the court, marshalled by the Lady Lochleven herself, dressed out in her highest and stiffest ruff, with her partlet and sleeves of cyprus, and her huge old-fashioned farthingale of crimson velvet." ...
— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Farthingale" :   hoop


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