crinoline
Meaning of crinoline
- a stiffened or hooped petticoat worn to make a long skirt stand out.
- a stiff fabric made of horsehair and cotton or linen thread, used for stiffening petticoats or as a lining.
mid 19th century (originally in crinoline (sense 2), early crinolines being made of such material): from French, formed irregularly from Latin crinis ‘hair’ + linum ‘thread’.
Information about crinoline
- It is a name.
- The plural form of crinoline is: crinolines.
- Languages in which crinoline is used:
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Hyphenation of crinoline
crino-line
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- crinoline is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
crinoline synonyms
Meaning hoopskirt:
Words that rhyme with crinoline
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