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vardingale

vardingale is the obsolete form 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

Forms of vardingale

pluralvardingales

Questions about vardingale

What is vardingale the obsolete form of?
Vardingale is the obsolete form of farthingale.

Words near vardingale in the dictionary

  1. vardering
  2. varders
  3. Vardhaman
  4. Vardhman
  5. Vardies
  6. vardingale
  7. vardingales
  8. vardo
  9. vardoes
  10. vardos
  11. Vardrid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vardingale (page history and authors); farthingale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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