farthingales

The Mexican work she chose to despise as savage; but the Spanish dresses were a treasure; and for two or three days she appeared on the quarter-deck, sunning herself like a peacock before the eyes of Amyas in Seville mantillas, Madrid hats, Indian brocade farthingales, and I know not how many other gewgaws, and dare not say how put on.

Westward Ho! 2007

But just as he was about to press forward and break through all, suddenly from among some trees two shepherdesses of surpassing beauty presented themselves to his sight — or at least damsels dressed like shepherdesses, save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade; that is to say, the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroidered tabby.

Don Quixote 2002

We had had to abandon our farthingales, but we did very well without.

QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

Amid the spreading farthingales and swishing trains of the Paris ladies, and their bouffant sleeves and the shoulder puffs that rose up to their ears, I felt like a maidservant.

QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

The chapel ceremony the following morning was lengthy, dignified, and crammed with guests in such a magnificence of silks and velvets and jewels, ruffs and farthingales, billowing sleeves and flowing mantles, that the congregation seemed to consist more of clothes than of people.

QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

Music to soothe! the idea is obsolete, buried with the ruffs and farthingales of our great-grandmothers; or, to speak more soberly, with the powdered wigs and hoops of their daughters.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

The stately _pavon_ had possession of the English court, with ruffs and farthingales, in the reign of Elizabeth.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

Clothing was absurd and ran to extreme sizes of ruffs, farthingales, and breeches, or to gaudy colors and jewels.

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

The pageant of the Middle Ages, when hose were hose and covered the whole leg, and jagged sleeves hung down beside them; Elizabeth's ladies with their rigid busks and farthingales; Georgian beauties in flowered paduasoy; the high breasts and flowing draperies of the Regency; and, best of all, the "little milliner," without whose aid, it seems, no scion of the Victorian aristocracy could sow his first wild oats.

Try Anything Twice 1938

They turned over a variety of crinolines, farthingales, bustles and wigs, laying on one side the articles of silver, bronze and porcelain -- for the Tartars were coming after dinner.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915