单词 | farthingale |
释义 | farthingalen. 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 n. a seventeenth-century chair with a wide seat, a low straight back, and no arms. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > hoop hoop1548 farthingale1552 vardingale1552 roundabouta1555 ferdegewa1556 verdugal1558 guard-infante1670 crinoline1847 tub-hoop1892 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs farthingale chair1552 side chair1582 high chair1609 scroll chair1614 Turkey chair1683 curule chair1695 reading chair1745 rush-bottom1754 conversation-chair1793 Windsor tub1800 Trafalgar chair1808 beehive-chair1816 nursing chair1826 Hitchcockc1828 toilet seat1829 kangaroo1834 prie-dieu1838 tub-chair1839 barrel-chair1850 Cromwell chair1868 office chair1874 swivel-chair1885 steamer-chair1886 suggan chair1888 lawn chair1895 saddle seat1895 Bombay chair1896 veranda-chair1902 X chair1904 Yorkshire chair1906 three legs and a swinger1916 saddlebag1919 riempie stool1933 gaspipe chair1934 slipper chair1938 Eames chair1946 contour chair1948 sling-back1948 sling chair1957 booster chair1960 booster seat1967 beanbag1969 sack chair1970 papasan1980 Muskoka chair1987 1552 H. Latimer Serm. Gospels iii. 166 I warrant you they had bracelets and verdynggales and such fine gere. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe i. sig. A2v To learne how to weare a Scotch Farthingale. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 499 The Women wear great Vardingales, standing..far out at each side. 1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman I. 124 I cannot esteem those who part with regret from their high-heads and vardingales. 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt ii. 27 Her majesty's old fardingale is not more out of fashion. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 47 The maids of honour had just stripped off their fardingales. 1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. 280 Whatever he was saying or doing, he stopped short at the sight of a farthingale. 1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. vii. 179 The chair..is an early example of what was termed a farthingale chair. 1955 Oxf. Junior 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. Derivatives ˈfarthingaled adj. having a farthingale. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing underwear > wearing underskirt > types of petticoated1824 hoop-petticoated1837 crinolined1848 hoopeda1854 farthingaled1873 crinoletted1885 1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 19 Like the faithful, ruffed and farthingaled wife on a fifteenth century tomb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1552 |
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