CRINOLINE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

2.
n.

A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.


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