far·thin·gale 
(färthĭn-gāl′, -thĭng-)
(färthĭn-gāl′, -thĭng-)n.
A support, such as a hoop, worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally from the waist, used by European women in the 1500s and 1600s.
[Alteration of obsolete verdynggale, from obsolete French verdugale, from Old Spanish verdugado, from verdugo, stick, shoot of a tree, from verde, green, from Latin viridis, from virēre, to be green.]
farthingaleportrait of Queen Margaret of Austria (1584-1611) by Juan Pantajo de la Cruz (1553-1608)