farthingale

Meaning of farthingale

noun

a hooped petticoat or circular pad of fabric around the hips, formerly worn under women's skirts to extend and shape them.

early 16th century (formerly also as vardingale ): from French verdugale, alteration of Spanish verdugado, from verdugo ‘rod, stick’, from verde ‘green’.

Information about farthingale

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of farthingale is: farthingales.
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Hyphenation of farthingale

far-thin-gale

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • farthingale is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with farthingale

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