far·thin·gale (fär   n-g l , -ng-)n. A support, such as a hoop, worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally from the waist, used by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries. [Alteration of obsolete verdynggale, from Old French verdugale, from Old Spanish verdugado, from verdugo, stick, shoot of a tree, from verde, green, from Latin viridis, from vir  re, to be green.] |
farthingale [ˈfɑːðɪŋˌgeɪl]
n
(Clothing & Fashion) a hoop or framework worn under skirts, esp in the Elizabethan period, to shape and spread them
[from French verdugale, from Old Spanish verdugado, from verdugo rod]
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| Noun | 1. |  farthingale - a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centurieshoop - a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt |
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