Meaning & use
Crinolines
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Stiff, structured petticoats or hooped frames worn to make a skirt stand out, especially in 19th-century fashion.
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The museum exhibit displayed several Victorian dresses worn over crinolines.
Wide crinolines made walking through narrow doorways a real challenge.
A note on using this word
The word originally referred to a stiff fabric woven from horsehair (crin) and linen (lin), before coming to mean the hooped undergarment itself.
Words with a similar meaning
hoop skirtspetticoats
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