crinoline

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French crinoline.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪnəlɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

crinoline (countable and uncountable, plural crinolines)

1. A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.
2. A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.
   • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 4, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

     These standards have not just been oppressive but deadly. In the nineteenth century, stiff crinoline petticoats puffed out skirts so far that the cheap materials often brushed against open flames and caught fire. This arbitrary convention of dress caused three thousand women to be burned alive.

3. A skirt stiffened with hoops.
   • 1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia:

     The various articles of a lady's apparel—dresses, skirts, crinolines, etc.—should be hung neatly away in the closet or wardrobe. The underclothing should be folded and placed in an orderly manner in the drawers of the dressing-bureau.

4. Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.
5. Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.

Derived terms

• crinolette
• crinolined

Translations

petticoat

• Czech: krinolína (cs) f
• Finnish: krinoliini (fi)
• French: crinoline (fr) f
• Irish: cóta fonsaí m
• Italian: crinolina (it) f
• Japanese: クリノリン (kurinorin)
• Macedonian: криноли́н m (krinolín)
• Polish: krynolina f
• Spanish: crinolina (es), miriñaque (es) m
• Turkish: krinolin

Anagrams

• lonicerin

French

Etymology

From Latin crinis (“hair”) + linum (“flax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁi.nɔ.lin/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

crinoline f (plural crinolines)

1. crinoline
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     — À quoi cela sert-il? demandait le jeune garçon en passant sa main sur la crinoline ou les agrafes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “crinoline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Noun

crinoline f

1. plural of crinolina

Anagrams

• inclinerò, reclinino