What's the difference between crinoline and farthingale?

Crinoline


Definition:

  • (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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.
  • (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Corsets and crinolines, boxers and bras … the history of underwear is also an intimate history of changing attitudes to gender, sex, hygiene and morality.
  • (2) They included an elaborate military jacket, embroidered kimonos and a "petticoat cage" (a hooped underskirt normally worn under crinolines).
  • (3) "Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future be able to stop the world from drowning under a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde?"
  • (4) I felt my wings were being clipped a little and persuaded her to let me write music with a marginal amount of energy for the aboriginal scene [ Here to There ], so the world would know that I could write stuff that wasn't all constrained in crinolined hoops.
  • (5) Because Moore's website, isanyoneup.com, operated in the murky world of "revenge porn" – a modern-age phenomenon that almost makes you long for crinoline skirts and steam-powered engines.
  • (6) John Tully, head of the Metropolitan Police Federation, says: "This has gone way beyond an apology or even a resignation; Mr Mitchell now needs to be sacked" – which is so hysterical that I'm worried Mr Tully's crinoline is too tight and he's going to faint away on the parlour floor.
  • (7) The collection included ripped lace dresses, tartan crinolines and models wearing antlers and lace headdresses.

Farthingale


Definition:

  • (n.) A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the Globe's homegrown production of Twelfth Night this summer will feature Mark Rylance in an original-practices interpretation first seen in 2002 – farthingale skirts, ruffs and the rest – Company Theatre is looking in an entirely different direction.

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