farthingale

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɑːðɪŋɡeɪl/    美 /ˈfɑɹðɪŋɡeɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat. historical
    — women […] make trunk-sleeves of wyre and whale-bone bodies, backes of lathes, and stiffe bumbasted verdugals, and to the open-view of all men paint and embellish themselves with counterfeit and borrowed beauties[…].

词形变化

farthingales plural fardingale alternative vardingale alternative verdingall alternative verdugal alternative

词源

Hobson-Jobson of earlier forms vardingale, etc., borrowed from Middle French verdugale, from Spanish verdugado, from verdugo (“rod”).
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