Distender

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who, or that which, distends.

    "Crinoline was fashionable, even in the country, in those days, and ribs of cane were used before the metallic distenders of dresses came in."

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"Crinoline was fashionable, even in the country, in those days, and ribs of cane were used before the metallic distenders of dresses came in."

Etymology

From distend + -er.

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