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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
farthingale .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
farthingale .
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- noun Obsolete form of
farthingale .
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hernesheir commented on the word verdingale
Send verdingales to Broad-gates, Oxford. An old saying recorded in Grose's 1787 A Provincial Glossary.
Formerly, verdingales, or farthingales had become so fashionably large and broad that the hoop-skirted ladies "could not enter (except going sidelong) at any ordinary door.
May 3, 2011