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farthingale
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Definition:A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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my surprise was great to see her wearing a hoop and farthingale, with high-heeled shoes, and a dirty cap of Brussels lace, so much too large for her that it gave her face a ridiculously diminutive expression.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)
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Lucetta: What fashion, madam, shall I make your breeches?
Julia: That fits as well as “Tell me, good my lord,
What compass will you wear your farthingale?”
Why, ev’n what fashion thou best likes, Lucetta.
Lucetta: You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.
William Shakespeare. The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623)
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“Look your last on my fine shape,” she proclaimed in her high, rich voice. “You will see but little of the lower part of it when it is hid in farthingales and petticoats. Look your last before I go to don my fine lady’s furbelows.”
Francis Burnett. A Lady of Quality
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the good old times so vaunted by some poets, so regretted by those gloomy minds which admire only hoops and farthingales.
Charles Paul de Kock. The Barber of Paris
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the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroidered tabby.
Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote
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Here is the green farthingale, Here is the diamond-hilted sword, Here are the shoes with red heels and the blue solitaire—sounded gravely in the moonlight, and two cherry-colored maids came fluttering out to receive Estella.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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