crinoline

The woman, as she enters, drags after her a misshapen, dirty mass of battered wirework, which she calls her crinoline, and which adds as much to her grace and comfort as a log of wood does to a donkey when tied to the animal's leg in a paddock.

North America — Volume 1 Anthony Trollope 1848

A respectable elderly woman stooping forward, invested in crinoline, exposes quite as much of her own person to the patient lying in the room as any opera dancer does on the stage.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

The woman, as she enters, drags after her a misshapen, dirty mass of battered wirework, which she calls her crinoline, and which adds as much to her grace and comfort as a log of wood does to a donkey when tied to the animal’s leg in a paddock.

North America 1862

They are in sympathy with all that is bright and beautiful in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath; and it has even been suspected that the only reason why they ever assume that invisible round-about called crinoline is that, like the moon, they may move in a circle.

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

"Every iron-clad is provided with a crinoline, which is a powerful iron network, hung all round the ship at some distance from her, like -- pardon me -- a lady's crinoline, and is intended to intercept any torpedo that may be discharged against her."

In the Track of the Troops 1859

Obviously the purse is a bit heavy on the butterfly and rose for me, not exactly going to get all dolled up in my goth loli with my black lace bonnet, high skirt with tonnes of lace and crinoline which is what I think this purse was meant to go with.

I pursue taboo love, reasons to wear corsets and girls with knives Elizabeth McClung 2008

The ship was to carry a "crinoline" of stanchions along her water-line, practically a fixed torpedo-net.

The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 Various

Then the "crinoline" was drawn on, but it added no feminine sharpness to his wits, though it seriously modified and damaged the shape of his person.

Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859

Sometimes a "crinoline" to afford protection to the stomach in deep water is put on, but on the present occasion it was omitted, the water being shallow.

Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859

Costelloe presented a strong collection which featured short, "crinoline" skirts over stiff, canvas petticoats, in tweed and silk jacquard; blouses and dresses with leg-o-mutton sleeves; and finely-tailored riding-jackets and coats.

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