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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long full skirt belled out with a series of connected circular supports.
Wiktionary
- n. A women's undergarment worn in various historical periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape, typically consisting of a fabric petticoat with casings to hold a stiffening material, variously rope, osiers, whalebone, steel, or nylon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also
hoop petticoat .
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treeseed A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment worn in various periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape.
Hoop skirts typically consist of a fabric petticoat with casings to hold a stiffening material, variously rope, osiers, whalebone, steel or nylon.
Lightweight hoop skirts, usually with nylon hoops, are worn today under very full-skirted wedding gowns.
_Wikipedia Feb 6, 2008