She was quaintly dressed in a ruff and farthingale, and a velvet hood covered her snow-white hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Fairy Book] Reference
She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
The farthingale gave way to the skirt, open from waist to hem in front, to show an elaborate petticoat. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The Marie Antoinette-styled skirt (think farthingale hips and a little bustle in the bum) had a train and was beaded with crystals as well. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
'Her buckram waist, like armour, sleeves, ruff, and farthingale are all monstrous; and her double-linked gold chains are grand enough for the Lord Mayor. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
The magnificence of her dress reminded me of the times of the farthingale, and the motley hue of her by no means smooth skin, of the happy epoch of the black taffeta patch. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
Costume was anachronistic; Cleopatra was impersonated by a boy in stays and farthingale; and Cæsar, probably by Burbage, in a costume much like that worn by the Earl of Essex. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
With a huge farthingale to swell her fustian stuff. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference
"Where's the farthingale, Benedick the married man?". From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
We did not disdain the word in farthingale = pet en air. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
“Marmalct Madarus,” strutting in hoop and farthingale. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of Travel] Reference
"The friendship that melts to nought at sight of a farthingale.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
Margaret pinned up her kirtle and farthingale, for the road was wet. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
And it was the pulling that the Bishop wished, not the mere jingling of the farthingale. From Wordnik.com. [The Brentons] Reference
There's Queen Elizabeth now -- I can manage her skirt, but I want something for her farthingale. From Wordnik.com. [The Jolliest School of All] Reference
In this God-forgotten corner you cannot see a petticoat on any terms, save the farthingale of Dame. From Wordnik.com. [St George's Cross] Reference
'And she has on her best blue, made out of mother's French farthingale,' cried the discreet Annora. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
It was in Queen Anne's time that the bone was in its glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
'Then Lucy had her first satin farthingale, and three gallants, besides my brother, wanted to dance with her.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
William Phipps eyed them from the wall in ruff and farthingale, an imperious old dame not unsuspected of witchcraft. From Wordnik.com. [Twice Told Tales] Reference
Lady Berkley appeared for the first time without her farthingale, but still retained its cotemporary, the French hood. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
She wore a ruff of black taffeta, a red velvet hood, and a farthingale all in rags, and she leaned heavily upon a crutch. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference
"They hate thee," said Eldershawe, with a chuckle, "and will hate thee worse when thou wearest brocades and a farthingale.". From Wordnik.com. [His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality] Reference
Her kirtle was of English cloth, dark blue, and her farthingale and hose of the same material, but a glossy roan, or claret colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
Lord of Leicester, but, tripping back, her high heels caught in her farthingale, and she would have fallen on the ice, but for that my. From Wordnik.com. [Condensed Novels: New Burlesques] Reference
The ancient lady of Sir William Phipps eyed them from the wall, in ruff and farthingale, an imperious old dame, not unsuspected of witchcraft. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")] Reference
There, too, was Sir Henry, seeming equally stern in his court suit and hat, and Dame Markham, in stomacher and farthingale and ruff, with quite. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story] Reference
Not Queen Elizabeth, with ruff and farthingale, could have said it with more consciousness of her own dignity, or more superb dismission of that of another. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
The Red Gulf Fritillary had heard it, and here she was, all in her fine fulvous frock besmocked with black velvet, and her farthingale spangled with silver. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
Opposite is that of Lady Margaret Legh, who is represented life-size dressed in stiff ruff and farthingale, holding an infant in swaddling bands on her knee. From Wordnik.com. [Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London] Reference
"Heaven only knows," said Drysdale; "I daresay I did, I'd order a full suit cut out of my grandmother's farthingale to get that cursed Schloss out of my rooms sometimes.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference
"He hath fallen in love with her," the Castlemaine had said afterwards to a derisive group; "he hath fallen deep in love -- with her long teeth and her Portuguese farthingale.". From Wordnik.com. [His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality] Reference
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