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FARTHINGALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does farthingale mean?
• FARTHINGALE (noun)
The noun FARTHINGALE has 1 sense:
1. a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries
Familiarity information: FARTHINGALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("farthingale" is a kind of...):
hoop (a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt)
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