The enormous farthingale was worn throughout this reign by the nobility, the ruffs and collars worn at this time by the ladies being generally stiffened with yellow starch, like those of the gentleman.
The French hood and farthingale were still worn, and the high-crowned hat was generally worn by countrywomen and the wives of the citizens (Figs.
He laid down his newspaper, gave Farthingale an order, took up a slip of paper and his hat, and went by way of the darkest street to The Butterflies.
Farthingale pondered for a time, but shook his head.
But Farthingale merely looked at him over his steel-rimmed spectacles.
Farthingale was as well known in Riddsley as the Maypole; gossip had it that he was a by-blow of an old name.
The thing was reported, and though the Tories sneered at it as a hole-and-corner meeting, Farthingale held another view.
They talked for a time in low voices and before he went into the Portcullis that night Farthingale ordered a gig to be ready at daylight.
That day was gone, but men still dropped their work to see a woman pass, still cheered when a farthingale appeared over a ship's side, and at church still devoted their eyes to other service than staring at the minister.
He gathered up the reins and struck spurs into his horse, then turned to call back to me: "Sleep upon my words, Ralph, and the next time I come I look to see a farthingale behind thee!
This farthingale hung every night from a hook which was secured by a padlock behind the headboard of her bed.
But the passage was so narrow and the Queen of Navarre's farthingale was so voluminous that her silken gown brushed against the young man's clothes, while a penetrating perfume hovered where she passed.
Her kirtle was of English cloth, dark blue, and her farthingale and hose of the same material, but a glossy roan, or claret colour.
The skirt is raised, revealing the farthingale petticoat with the roll at its hem which contained cane stiffening (verdugo).
Catherine of Arragon introduces the mantilla and farthingale into England, note, 210.
Such was the first arrival of the famous farthingale in England.
She was now listening as if her very life depended on what she heard--crouching in the angle of the dining-room as closely as her unwieldy farthingalewould allow.
Quickly now she took off her stuff gown and heavy farthingale which had so impeded her movements awhile ago, and groped in the press for a clinging robe which would envelop her closely and glide noiselessly upon the tiled floors.
Bloch brings together various interesting quotations concerning the farthingale and the crinoline.
The crinoline boasts as its great-great-grand-mother the farthingale or vertingale, which was worn in France in the reign of Henry II.
It was, however, in the days of Elizabeth that the farthingale reached its apogee, and according to Sir Roger de Coverley made its wearers look as if they were "standing in a drum.
You would not, for instance, see a lady when wearing Grecian draperies disport herself in the same fashion as one bearing the stiff stomacher and monstrous farthingale of the Elizabethan period.
With the farthingale were worn long sleeves, lace coifs, and fluted basques, and stomachers; and later the long sleeves were replaced by those reaching the elbow, made in puffs tied with bows or tightly fitting and bordered with frills.
The farthingale extended its circumference in the reign of James I.
The proportions of the dresses were exceedingly ugly, and the pleated farthingalean absurdity.
The great wheel farthingale was worn by the nobility during the latter half of the reign of Elizabeth, and during the whole of the succeeding reign.
It is, however, box pleated round the top of the drum, the farthingale being divided in front and discovering the kirtle underneath.
That day was gone, but men still dropped their work to see a woman pass, still cheered when a farthingale appeared over a ships side, and at church still devoted their eyes to other service than staring at the minister.
Elizabeth was as a farthingale over an executioner's block.
St Michael, for instance, may appear in white kid dancing shoes and a short velvet frock, and the Madonna is usually attired in the cumbersome Spanish court dress of the sixteenth century; with farthingale and ruff complete.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farthingale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
