farthingale englannista kaikille kielille - Sanakirja.org (englanti-*)

(now 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.
In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.

Monikko