What's the difference between crinoline and hoopskirt?
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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.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.