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Definitions
A hoop structure worn under skirts to hold them out.
Word origin
Hobson-Jobson of earlier forms vardingale, etc., borrowed from Middle French verdugale, from Spanish verdugado, from verdugo (“rod”).
Used in a sentence
“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[…].”
“In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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