Crinoline vs. Farthingale

Crinolinenoun

A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.

Crinolinenoun

A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.

Crinolinenoun

A skirt stiffened with hoops.

Crinolinenoun

Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.

Crinolinenoun

Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.

Crinolinenoun

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; - so called because originally made of hair.

Crinolinenoun

A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.

Crinolinenoun

a skirt stiffened with hoops

Crinolinenoun

full stiff petticoat made of crinoline

Crinolinenoun

a stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing

Crinoline

A crinoline is a stiff or structured petticoat designed to hold out a woman's skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century. Originally, crinoline was described as a stiff fabric made of horsehair () and cotton or linen which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining.

Farthingalenoun

(historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.

Farthingalenoun

A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.

Farthingalenoun

a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries

Farthingale

A farthingale is one of several structures used under Western European women's clothing in the 16th and 17th centuries to support the skirts in the desired shape and enlarge the lower half of the body. It originated in Spain in the fifteenth century.