noun. A coarse stiff fabric, originally of cotton and horsehair, used especially to line and stiffen hats and garments.

noun. A petticoat made of this fabric.

noun. A hoop skirt.

noun. A contrivance worn by divers in deep water to enable them to breathe more freely. It is placed round the body and tied in front of the stomach.

noun. A stiff material originally made wholly or in part of horsehair, whence the name.

noun. Hence A skirt made of this stuff or of any stiffened or starched material.

noun. A framework of fine steel or other hoops or springs, used for distending the dress; a hoop-skirt. See farthingale and hoop-skirt.

Pertaining to or resembling a crinoline in structure.

noun. A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

noun. A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.

noun. A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair

noun. A stiff petticoat made from this fabric

noun. A skirt stiffened with hoops

noun. a full stiff petticoat made of crinoline fabric

noun. a stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing

noun. a skirt stiffened with hoops

"The woman, as she enters, drags after her a misshapen, dirty mass of battered wirework, which she calls her crinoline, and which adds as much to her grace and comfort as a log of wood does to a donkey when tied to the animal's leg in a paddock."

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