CRINOLINE

Crinoline

Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850, the word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman's dress into the required shape. In form and function it is very similar to the earlier farthingale.

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crinoline

Noun

  1. A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair
  2. A stiff petticoat made from this fabric
  3. A skirt stiffened with hoops


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