(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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.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.
Petticoat
Definition:
(n.) A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saturday’s can-can dancers – with their petticoats in team colours – were a novelty but it is Toulon’s can-do attitude towards recruitment that is taking them – regardless of the tournament they play in – to places others cannot reach.
(2) This week’s Champions League semi-finals did not have the gravitas of 1792’s famous “Petticoat Coat” duel between Lady Almeria Braddock and Mrs Elphinstone, but the stakes were high all the same.
(3) They included an elaborate military jacket, embroidered kimonos and a "petticoat cage" (a hooped underskirt normally worn under crinolines).
(4) Come here for secondhand cartoon sweaters, neon petticoats and pink roller skates or a T-shirt with a cracked silk screen of 1980s-era Madonna.
(5) Hadow puts it more chivalrously: "I see the Arctic as a maiden newly discovered on the social scene, and we're melting away her petticoats, and there are some avaricious types peering underneath, and someone needs to defend her honour."
(6) The other woman we were sneakily reading in 1963 was Simone de Beauvoir, but the childhoods of little-girl colonials such as ourselves lacked starched petticoats and were not very French.
(7) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
(8) A Conservative MP has criticised the "night of the petticoats" reshuffle that brought several new women into the cabinet last week.
(9) Some of them dealt with Cambridge, Paris and Switzerland, while those on his upbringing were not only delightful but almost intolerably poignant to anyone of his generation: rationing, London fogs, trolleybuses, the local Sainsbury's which still had sawdust on its floor and "assistants in starched blue-and-white aprons", not to mention the way that "girls in those days came buttressed in an impenetrable Maginot Line of hooks, belts, girdles, nylons, roll-ons, suspenders, slips and petticoats".
(10) "Keira was lovely to act with, but there were something like 73 layers of petticoat to get through.
(11) Rachel Simpson, blogger at Pretty Petticoats and second-year fashion retail management student at Birmingham City University I've never attended any of the shows, but I go down to Somerset House during London Fashion Week to get inspiration from what everyone is wearing.
(12) At other times she used her Lady Bracknell manner to get past KGB officers; when she went to Zimbabwe she adopted the air of a slightly senile elderly tourist and in El Salvador she made a white flag to fly on the car out of an M&S petticoat.
(13) A pink petticoat in the forecourt distinguishes this two-storey heap of rubble from other more intact buildings nearby.
(14) For reasons which may or may not be connected to voluminous frilly petticoats, the most attractive period is often the Victorian age.
(15) Each shop – Secret Dog, Garter, Ilil, Hayatochiri and Southpole - is owned by young enthusiastic designers who toil away making one-off pieces like petticoats and blouses made from wire mesh, or a pair of Nike Air Force 1 trainers nailed to traditional wooden sandal blocks and spray-painted pink.