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/ˈfɑːðɪŋɡeɪl/ · noun
(historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat..
women […] make trunk-sleeves of wyre and whale-bone bodies, backes of lathes, and stiffe bumbasted verdugals, and to the open-view of all men paint and embellish themselves with counterfeit and borrowed beauties[…].
As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.
In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.
Use farthingale when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Farthingale means (historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat..
Common synonyms include hoop skirt.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
women […] make trunk-sleeves of wyre and whale-bone bodies, backes of lathes, and stiffe bumbasted verdugals, and to the open-view of all men paint and embellish themselves with counterfeit and borrowed beauties[…].
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