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farthingale|ˈfɑːðɪŋgeɪl|
Forms: 6 farthyngall, 6–8 fardingal(l, 7 Sc. fartigal, 7–8 farthingal, 7– fard-, farthingale. β. 6–8 vardingal(e, 6 verdynggale, 7 verdingal(e, (vertingale, virdingal).
[ad. OF. verdugale, vertugalle, corruption of Sp. verdugado a farthingale, f. verdugo rod, stick. (So called because distended by cane hoops or rods inserted underneath.)]
A frame-work of hoops, usually of whalebone, worked into some kind of cloth, formerly used for extending the skirts of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat. farthingale chair, a seventeenth-century chair with a wide seat, a low straight back, and no arms.
1552Latimer Serm. Gospels iii. 166, I warrant you they had bracelets and verdynggales and such fine gere. 1607Dekker Westw. Hoe i. Wks. 1873 II. 282 To learne how to weare a Scotch Farthingale. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 499 The Women wear great Vardingales, standing..far out at each side. 1753L. M. tr. Du Boscq's Accomplish'd Woman I. 124, I cannot esteem those who part with regret from their high-heads and vardingales. 1776Foote Bankrupt ii, Her majesty's old fardingale is not more out of fashion. 1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 47 The maids of honour had just stripped off their fardingales. 1860Reade Cloister & H. I. 280 Whatever he was saying or doing, he stopped short at the sight of a farthingale. 1904P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. vii. 179 The chair..is an early example of what was termed a farthingale chair. 1955Oxf. Jun. Encycl. XI. 51/1 The ‘farthingale chairs’ designed for ladies wearing the wide skirts..no longer had solid backs, but upholstered rectangular backs raised above the seats on turned supports.
attrib.1711J. Distaff Char. Don. Sacheverelli 4 A large Fardingale Petticoat.
Hence ˈfarthingaled a., having a farthingale.
1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 19 Like the faithful, ruffed and farthingaled wife on a fifteenth century tomb. |