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farthingales

farthingales is the plural of farthingale.

Meaning of farthingale

Noun

farthingale (plural farthingales)

  1. (historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
    • women […] make trunk-sleeves of wyre and whale-bone bodies, backes of lathes, and stiffe bumbasted verdugals, and to the open-view of all men paint and embellish themselves with counterfeit and borrowed beauties[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    hoop skirt

Questions about farthingales

What is farthingales the plural of?
Farthingales is the plural of farthingale.

Words near farthingales in the dictionary

  1. farthing loaves
  2. Farthing Street
  3. farthingale
  4. farthingale chair
  5. farthingale chairs
  6. farthingales
  7. farthingdale
  8. farthingdales
  9. farthingdeal
  10. farthingdeals
  11. Farthinghoe

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