farthing

Example Sentences

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The bright and complex costumes, with some characters in apparel like Elizabethan farthingales, are equally picturesque.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2016

You will see but little of the lower part of it when it is hid in farthingales and petticoats. 

From A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

They turned over a variety of crinolines, farthingales, bustles and wigs, laying on one side the articles of silver, bronze and porcelain—for the Tartars were coming after dinner.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

Ah! yes, you follow indeed," he said, bitterly, "but it is the trip of feet, the flirt of farthingales down the turret steps.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

To accord with this fantastical taste, the ladies invented large hoop farthingales; two lovers aside could surely never have taken one another by the hand.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac