Associations to the word «Farthingale»

Wiktionary

FARTHINGALE, noun. (now historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.

Dictionary definition

FARTHINGALE, noun. A hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne