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crinoline
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synonyms: ~farthingale, ~pannier ???
tags: [fashion]
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Definition:a hooped skirt style that was very popular the 1850's, 60's and 70's. The material used for the skirts was very flammable and resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. The dresses were also quite efficient wind catchers and foot entanglers which resulted in some embarrassing situations.
image 1: in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.image 2: Crinoline, 1860-1870. Jacoba de Jonge Collection in MoMu - Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, www.momu.be / Photo by Hugo Maertens, Bruges
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This Davis he was always full of bluster and of brag,
He swore, on all our Northern walls he'd plant his Rebel flag.
But when to battle he did go he said, "I'm not so green,
To dodge the bullets I will wear my tin-clad crinoline."
Civil War song: Jeff in Petticoats
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"I say, Marya Vassilievna, you were making out those fly-away crinolines were not being worn. Just look at her in the puce dress— an ambassador's wife they say she is— how her skirt bounces out from side to side!"
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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"We get you a big plantation dress, crinoline, lace. A big hat. A parasol. Very refined. Your hair’s on your shoulders in curls. [...]"
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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"What is that for?" asked the young fellow, passing his hand over the crinoline or the hooks and eyes. "Why, haven't you ever seen anything?" Felicite answered laughing. "As if your mistress, Madame Homais, didn't wear the same."
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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she found Petronila Iguarán there with the bothersome crinolines and the beaded jacket
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.367 (1970)
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