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[…].
Source: wiktionary
Farthingale
//ˈfɑːðɪŋɡeɪl//
Synonyms for "farthingale" (2 found)
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Bulgarian
1 entries- кринолин noun (hooped structure)
Finnish
1 entries- krinoliini noun (hooped structure)
French
1 entries- crinoline noun (hooped structure)
Swedish
1 entries- krinolin noun (hooped structure)
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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.
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In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.
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