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Definition of Crinoline

1. Noun. A skirt stiffened with hoops.

2. Noun. A full stiff petticoat made of crinoline fabric.

3. Noun. A stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing.

Definition of Crinoline

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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

Definition of Crinoline

1. Noun. A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair ¹

2. Noun. A stiff petticoat made from this fabric ¹

3. Noun. A skirt stiffened with hoops ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crinoline

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crinoline

crinkleroot crinkles crinklier crinkliest crinkliness crinkling crinklings crinkly crinky crinogenic

crinoid crinoidal crinoidean crinoideans crinoids crinoline (current term) crinolined crinolines crinophagy crinose

crinosities crinosity crinum crinums criollo criollos criosphinx criosphinxes cripe cripes

Literary usage of Crinoline

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The natural meaning of the section is that on. crinoline cloth an ad valorem ... On hair cloth known as crinoline cloth, 125 Ü. & The fact that 20 per cent ..."

2. Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations by Henry Theophilus Finck (1887)
"For we read that when, in 1856, the crinoline came in again, it was preceded by the " inelegant bustle in the upper part of the skirt " ; and it is a ..."

3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"crinoline AND WHALES. As, (borrowing a mechanical simile) certain clocks with glass faces are cunningly devised to cheat an observer into tho belief that ..."

4. The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion by Richard Miller Devens (1866)
"Effect of crinoline on 'Union' Sentiments. William Growman, a rebel deserter, who was drafted in Michigan, escaped from the provost-marshal by concealing ..."

5. The Local Courts' and Municipal GazetteLaw reports, digests, etc (1865)
"crinoline IN COURT. We have the highest respect for the " great unpaid:"* we consider the gratuitous performance of a great public duty by the gentry of ..."

6. The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud (1920)
"The crinoline period known to our mothers was, curiously enough, ... The crinoline of Madame Sappe brings vividly to mind an amusing story related by my ..."

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