farthingale
English edit
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Etymology edit
Hobson-Jobson of earlier forms vardingale, etc., borrowed from Middle French verdugale, from Spanish verdugado, from verdugo (“rod”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɑːðɪŋɡeɪl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɑɹðɪŋɡeɪl/
- Hyphenation: far‧thin‧gale
Noun edit
farthingale (plural farthingales)
- (historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
- Synonym: hoop skirt
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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 […].
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
- As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.
- 2003 May 3, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian:
- In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.