crinoline
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French crinoline.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crinoline (countable and uncountable, plural crinolines)
- A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.
- A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.
- 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 4, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
- These standards have not just been oppressive but deadly. In the nineteenth century, stiff crinoline petticoats puffed out skirts so far that the cheap materials often brushed against open flames and caught fire. This arbitrary convention of dress caused three thousand women to be burned alive.
- A skirt stiffened with hoops.
- Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.
- Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.
Translations edit
petticoat
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin crinis (“hair”) + linum (“flax”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crinoline f (plural crinolines)
Further reading edit
- “crinoline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
crinoline f