hoop petticoat

The crinoline or hooped petticoat had grown to its maximum dimensions by 1860.

The letters poked fun at various aspects of life in colonial America, such as this quote about hoop petticoats:

With its skirt-shaped cups and narrow petals, this narcissus is known as the hoop petticoat daffodil.

Inset: Hooped petticoat daffodils.

Skirts were supported by a hybrid of the bustle and crinoline or hooped petticoat sometimes called a "crinolette".

The "American" cage, a hooped petticoat partially covered in fabric, came in bright colors made possible by the new aniline dyes.

FARTHINGAL, hooped petticoat.

The lower parts of these evening dresses were even more extravagant in their detailing and dimensions wide, sweeping skirts with trailing extensions at the rear, supported by layers of hooped petticoats.

In the Fine Millinery Shop, a tailor fresh from London works on hooped petticoats while a young woman cuts fabric for pilches, the Colonial equivalent of plastic diaper covers.

Narcissus bulbocodium (hoop petticoat daffodil) is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to South and West France, Portugal, Spain and North Africa.

The extremely dilapidated condition of the building, lack of any obvious source of light or fire, and covering over of the window by a hoop petticoat suggest that Idle is in hiding and sparing no pains to keep his location a secret.

Lady Chivington wore a rose velvet gown adorned with gold lace and distended by an enormous hooped petticoat, and she was giving Niall a sultry glance from a distance, her perfect, bow-shaped mouth turned down in a pout.

If he spots a Mrs. James Hendry crinum, or a hoop petticoat daffodil outside an abandoned house somewhere in, say, Alabama, he calls the local tax office to get the name of the owner, contacts the person and explains his purpose.

From there, the W&W travels northwest, eventually parallelling the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) where it goes through Hoop Petticoat Gap along Gap Run at Chambersville, today known as Round Hill.

And to do the people justice, stern republicans as they had now become, they were well content that the old gentlewoman, in her hoop petticoat and faded embroidery, should still haunt the palace of ruined pride and overthrown power, the symbol of a departed system, embodying a history in her person.

The gorgeous dresses of the time, the crimson velvet coats, the gold-laced hats, the hoop petticoats, the silk, satin, brocade, and embroidery, the buckles, canes, and swords, all displayed to the best advantage on persons suited to such finery, made the group appear more like a bright-colored picture than anything real.

Stoddard published a pamphlet in 1722 entitled "Answer to Some Cases of Conscience" in which he argued that the newly fashionable hoop petticoats were "Contrary to the Light of Nature" and that "Hooped Petticoats have something of Nakedness".