farthingale

• “I can't imagine how you can guess at what's beneath this farthingale,” she said Robin heard the mischief in her voice. —  KISSED BY SHADOWS
• There's Queen Elizabeth now--I can manage her skirt, but I want something for her farthingale. —  The Jolliest School of All
• Historians dwell upon the mad excesses of ruff and farthingale, of pointed shoe and swelling skirt, as if these things stood for nothing in a society forever alternating between rigid formalism and the irrepressible spirit of democracy Is it possible to look at a single costume painted by Velasquez without realizing that the Spanish court under Philip the Fourth had lost the mobility which has characterized it in the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, and had hardened into a formalism, replete with dignity, but lacking intelligence, and out of touch with the great social issues of the day? —  Americans and Others
• When the company of Englishmen in their farthingale-breeches, slashed sleeves and white ruffs, their swords and buckles glistening, accompanied by a few soldiers bearing halberds and long muskets, arrived, the entire population of the village and those of other villages for leagues about were awaiting them. —  The Princess Pocahontas
• The sedan chair, the blue china, the fan, farthingale, and powdered head dress have now got the "rime of age" and are seen in fascinating perspective, even as the mailed courser, the buff jerkin, the cowl, and the cloth-yard shaft were seen by the men of Scott's generation Once more, the eighteenth century was classical in its respect for authority. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

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