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Definitions of crinoline in various dictionaries:
noun - a skirt stiffened with hoops
noun - a full stiff petticoat made of crinoline fabric
noun - a stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing
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| It can mean a stiff fabric, the petticoat made from it, or the hoop skirt the petticoat goes under |
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| a stiffened or hooped petticoat worn to make a long skirt stand out. |
| a stiff frame worn under a woman's skirt to give it a full appearance, especially in the 19th century |
| A stiffened or hooped petticoat worn to make a long skirt stand out. |
| A stiff fabric made of horsehair and cotton or linen thread, used for stiffening petticoats or as a lining. |
| A coarse stiff fabric of cotton or horsehair used especially to line and stiffen hats and garments. |
| A petticoat made of this fabric. |
| A hoop skirt. |
| a stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing |
| full stiff petticoat made of crinoline |
| a skirt stiffened with hoops |
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A crinoline is a stiffened or structured petticoat designed to hold out a woman's skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century. Originally, crinoline described a stiff fabric made of horsehair ("crin") and cotton or linen which was used to make underskirts and as a dress lining. * By the 1850s the term crinoline was more usually applied to the fashionable silhouette provided by horsehair petticoats, and to the hoop skirts that replaced them in the mid-1850s. In form and function these hoop skirts were similar to the 16th- and 17th-century farthingale and to 18th-century panniers, in that they too enabled skirts to spread even wider and more fully. * The steel-hooped cage crinoline, first patented in April 1856 by R.C. Milliet in Paris, and by their agent in Britain a few months later, became extremely popular. Steel cage crinolines were mass-produced in huge quantity, with factories across the Western world producing tens of thousands in a year. Alternative materials, such a |