crinolines
- plural of crinoline.
Example Sentences
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Skirts could be very full, with crinolines underneath, or they could be pencil skirts, worn with cinch belts and sweaters with bat-wing sleeves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
Tattoos disappeared under rose pink frills, corsets were tightened, crinolines were adjusted and propped, pearls shone on their necks and ears.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023
You’ll be telling people how lucky they are to have crinolines — just try to get a decent one in 2022! — and they’ll be bugging you about this iPhone thing you mentioned.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2022
But close up, they were meticulously and gorgeously constructed; their rough-hewed, blunted exteriors encased in thoughtful and ergonomic scaffolding, buttresses of padded wiring, canvas boning, industrial-strength crinolines.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017
They have layers of tulle and are propped up underneath with crinolines, and I worry about the hooks coming unfastened.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
