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Farthingale

noun

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

... and Dufour (op. cit., vol. vi, p. 28) even regards them as essentially a French garment. They were introduced at the Court towards the end of the fourteenth century, and in the sixteenth century were rendered almost necessary by the new fashion of the vertugale, or farthingale. In 1615, a lady's calecons are referred to as apparently an ordinary garment. It is noteworthy that in London, in the middle of the same century, young Mrs. Pepys, who was the daughter of French parents, usually wore drawers, which were seemingly of the closed ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... constantly crowded. In the last-mentioned part of the house was a great gallery, with deeply embayed windows filled with painted glass, a floor of polished oak, walls of the same dark lustrous material, hung with portraits of stiff beauties, some in ruff and farthingale, and some in a costume of an earlier period among whom was Margaret Barton, who brought the manor of Middleton into the family; frowning warriors, beginning with Sir Ralph Assheton, knight-marshal of England in the reign of Edward ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

Words linked to "Farthingale" : hoop