Farthingale

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A support, such as a hoop, worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally from the waist, used by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A contrivance for extending the skirts of women's dresses, resembling the modern hooped skirt and made of ribs of whalebone run into a cloth foundation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries
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