crinoline
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French crinoline.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcrinoline (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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editpetticoat
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom Latin crinis (“hair”) + linum (“flax”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcrinoline f (plural crinolines)
Further reading
edit- “crinoline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editNoun
editcrinoline f
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Fabrics
- en:Skirts
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Fabrics
- fr:Skirts
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun forms