Definitions for "Crinoline"
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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.
A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.
petticoats stiffened with horse-hair to enable the bell-like skirts of the early nineteenth century, that was eventually replaced with the bustle.
A heavily sized, stiff fabric used as a foundation to support the edge of a hem or puffed sleeve. Also used as interlining.
French word (from Italian crinolino and Latin crino or horsehair). A coarse stiff fabric of cotton or horsehair used especially to line and stiffen hats and garments. A hoop skirt. A petticoat made of this fabric to enable the bell-like skirts of the early XIX century, now replaced by the bustle..
a full stiff skirt or underskirt made of crinoline fabric, namely stiffened open-weave horsehair or cotton
Fabric of stiffened silk or cotton, used as a foundation to support the edge of a hem, the top of a sleeve etc; formerly used for the lower two thirds of underskirts to extend them. examples
A stiff, open weave fabric, usually heavily sized. Used mainly as lining or interlining.
stiff unpliable material used to support or stiffen dress, also given name of steel springs forming a type of cage or hoop used to extend skirt; sometimes used in entire petticoat.
A stiff, heavy fabric typically made of cotton or horsehair used to support the edge of a hem.
a skirt stiffened with hoops
full stiff petticoat made of crinoline
a stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing
a rather fancy cagelike hoop thingy that goes under your skirt, making it stand out like Scarlett's skirts in Gone with the Wind
Stiffener used at top or head of drapery. Crinoline is sometimes also being referred to as buckram or stiffener. Its purpose is to give strength to the heading and shape to the pleating. This area and our attention to it is very important to the longevity of the drapery.
What everyone means when using this word is a certain shape of skirt or dress supported by hoops , or hoops themselves. However, crinoline was originally completely opposite. This was the name for a very thick and stiff petticoat made of horsehair ( crin means "horsehair" in French), which was used from around 1830 to 1860 to give shape and volume to skirts. Since the skirts were getting more and more voluminous every year, hoops had to be re-envented in late 1850's as an alternative to heavy and numerous petticoats.
A lightweight, plain weave, stiffened fabric with a low yarn count (few yarns to the inch in each direction).
A circular age-like frame made of flexible steel wire hoops, worn underneath a ladies skirt to give it a full shape. Before the crinoline was introduced in 1856, women had to wear as many as 6 full petticoats to make their skirts stick out in the fashionable bell shape
Another word for buckram, the narrow stiffened pleats interfacing.
Crinoline was originally a stiff fabric with a weft of horse-hair and a warp of cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830, but by 1850 the word had come to mean a stiffened petticoat or rigid skirt-shaped structure of steel designed to support the skirts of a woman’s dress into the required shape. In form and function it is very similar to the earlier farthingale.