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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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"Farthingale" Quotes from Famous Books



... whiskers, blinds, or whatever you please, furnish to the ladies their busks and other stiffening contrivances. But in this particular, the demand has long been on the decline. It was in Queen Anne's time that the bone was in its glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion. And as those ancient dames moved about gaily, though in the jaws of the whale, as you may say; even so, in a shower, with the like thoughtlessness, do we nowadays fly under the same jaws for protection; ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


Words linked to "Farthingale" :   hoop


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