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Definition of Farthingales
1. farthingale [n] - See also: farthingale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farthingales
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Literary usage of Farthingales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland (1885)
"Next day the king issued his fulmination against farthingales, ... If the king
objected to farthingales, he should have commenced by regulating the attire ..."
2. There and Back Again in Search of Beauty by James Augustus St. John (1853)
"... faiths come in and oat like ruffs and farthingales, though sometimes under
new names ; but Catholicism he maintained to U, the creed best adapted to the ..."
3. Memoir of His Own Life by Roger Lamb (1811)
"At the period when hoops were in fashion, the ladies used, in half dress, to wear
what were called farthingales. A party of pleasure sailing down the river ..."
4. An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology by John William Mollett (1883)
"farthingales Farrago, R. (ie made of far, spelt). Fodder for horses and cattle,
consisting of the green ears of different kinds of grain. Fig. 304. ..."
5. Westward Ho!: The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh by Charles Kingsley (1855)
"But the Lord's hand will be against their tires and crisping-pins, their mufflers
and farthingales, as it was against the Jews of old. Ah, dear me! ..."