Meaning & use
farthingale
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a hooped framework, historically worn under a skirt to extend and shape it, popular in 16th- and 17th-century European fashion
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The portrait shows the queen in an elaborate gown stretched wide over a farthingale.
Costume designers researched farthingales to make the actors' dresses historically accurate.
A note on using this word
Farthingale is a specialized historical-fashion term you'll mostly encounter in descriptions of Tudor and Elizabethan clothing.
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