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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Farthingale (0.01026 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: farthingale
farthingale
n : a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn
by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Farthingale
Farthingale
\Far"thin*gale\, n. [OE. vardingale, fardingale, fr.
OF. vertugale, verdugade, F. vertugade, vertugadin, from Sp.
verdugado, being named from its hoops, fr. verdugo a young
shoot of tree, fr. verde green, fr. L. viridis. See
Verdant.]
A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic
material, used to extend the petticoat.
[1913 Webster]
We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . .
With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
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