Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of hoop skirt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a skirt stiffened with hoops.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a skirt stiffened with hoops
Examples
“The hoopskirt is the tribal costume of the white-girl South, I say.”
“Also, when Lizzie discovers the metal hoopskirt that some of the white women wear.”
“If nothing else, this tells me that if I ever write about a woman wearing a hoopskirt, I'd better do some research, at least asking a few women about their experiences.”
“She wasn't so impractical as to wear a full hoopskirt in proper belle fashion, but the dress was full and red and would have been more appropriate for a night at the opera in the 1920s than at a modern dinner gathering.”
“The effect was like a hoopskirt from the front, minus fabric.”
“It may be well imagined that I preferred to paint her in a plain gown and especially without a wide hoopskirt.”
Description of Queen Marie-Antoinette by Elisabeth Vigee-Labrun part 1
“Now, Nova stood in the center of the domed space, wearing a beautiful pink dress that had a ruffled neck, the white ruffles opening like a flower beneath her chin, a formfitting top, and a huge hoopskirt that extended outward half a meter in all directions and came to the floor.”
“Now, Nova stood in the center of the domed space, wearing a beautiful pink dress that had a ruffled neck, the white ruffles opening like a flower beneath her chin, a formatting top, and a huge hoopskirt that extended outward half a meter in all directions and came to the floor.”
“The first sparks came from an empty hoopskirt factory, but how they ignited is still a mystery.”
“Some tricksters are inspired to don the hoopskirt and whalebone costumes of Marie Antoinette.”
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The second sentence of a novel
"The second sentence of a novel" is a poem by lcmt
Two lighthouses, armed with the purposes of angels and the voices of monsters, bellowed from the yellow-smudged corners of the (pick ...incomprehensible, dissemble, black varnish, hoopskirt, sawtooth, furtive, clandestine, erratic, lost, elusive, illusive, inaccessible
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