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  • adjective wearing a crinoline skirt

Etymologies

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crinoline + -ed

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Examples

  • 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.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • Each escaramuza team is made up of eight riders who usually perform decked out in matching full-skirted and heavily-crinolined

    A Companion Guide to La Charreada 2007

  • Each escaramuza team is made up of eight riders who usually perform decked out in matching full-skirted and heavily-crinolined

    A Companion Guide to La Charreada 2007

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Queen of Country Music Holds Court 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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