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- adjective wearing a
crinoline skirt
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Examples
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There were nether garments too, in the form of floppy pantaloons, leotards, tight briefs, G-strings and loin-cloths, as well as kilts long and short, flowing and crinolined, skirts full and hobbled.
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Each escaramuza team is made up of eight riders who usually perform decked out in matching full-skirted and heavily-crinolined
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Each escaramuza team is made up of eight riders who usually perform decked out in matching full-skirted and heavily-crinolined
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The approved shoes were saddle shoes and white bucks, the evening gowns were strapless, if you could manage it; they had crinolined skirts that made you look like half a cabbage with a little radish head.
margaret atwood | waterstone’s poetry lecture « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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While Ms. Wells doubts that many in her audience confused the singer with the songs, her crinolined old-time farm girl stage dresses, some of which are on display in the exhibit, were designed to stave off any lingering suspicion in that regard.
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I ain't no princess, and there will be no matching mother/daughter crinolined dresses much to the chagrin of my Mother-in-Law.
Sugar and Spice 2007
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Christian Dior led the New Look with longer hemlines, narrow shoulders, closely fitted bodices, and full, crinolined skirts, and then later, the narrow long skirt.
A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002
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It was a real transformation dress, a duckling - into-swan gown, with a tiny little waist and a tight-fitting bodice, balanced by crinolined skirts.
Passionate Relationship Jordan, Penny 1997
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He was pensively turning one of the pieces in his hand, a crinolined woman wearing a beribboned bonnet languidly weeding a gulden path with a slender hoe.
The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988
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The grey, wistful eyes stared past his shoulder at the oil painting on the wall behind him, dimmed with age a little, but still showing clearly the golden-haired woman in her pale-pink lace gown, crinolined with a hundred and seven flounces.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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