Crinoline

What do we mean by crinoline?

A coarse stiff fabric, originally of cotton and horsehair, used especially to line and stiffen hats and garments. noun

A petticoat made of this fabric. noun

A hoop skirt. noun

A contrivance worn by divers in deep water to enable them to breathe more freely. It is placed round the body and tied in front of the stomach. noun

A stiff material originally made wholly or in part of horsehair, whence the name. noun

Hence A skirt made of this stuff or of any stiffened or starched material. noun

A framework of fine steel or other hoops or springs, used for distending the dress; a hoop-skirt. See farthingale and hoop-skirt. noun

Pertaining to or resembling a crinoline in structure.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair. noun

A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt. noun

A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair noun

A stiff petticoat made from this fabric noun

A skirt stiffened with hoops noun

A full stiff petticoat made of crinoline fabric noun

A stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing noun

A skirt stiffened with hoops noun

A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.

A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.

A skirt stiffened with hoops.

Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.

Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.

Words that are spelled similarly to crinoline:
crinoline, chinoline, quinoline, crinkling, crinolines, tripoline, cinnoline, crinolined, iridoline, crinone, pinoline.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word crinoline:
horsehair, bustle, petticoat, corset, silhouette, skirt, hoops, hoop, dresses, waist, lace, fashionable, worn, dress, fabric, mythology, cage, wire, evening, fashion, princess, designs, girl, shape, steel, representing, metal, wide, women, designed, front, sometimes, described, popular, style.

Words that rhyme with crinoline:
quinoline, chinoline, cinnoline, funnel line, tunnel line.

Adjectives that are often used to describe crinoline:
white, wide, lovely, black, huge, stiff, enormous, large, blue, pink, full, victorian, washed, unwashed, miniature, modern, much, short, fashioned, hooped, fashionable, red, voluminous, big, green, excess, starched, singular, thin, ample, vast, poor, yellow, layered, fair, sweet, fine, flounced, bashful, exaggerated, multilayered, crisp, anti, viennese, discursive, pale, circular, belated, artificial, purple, pendulous, modest, shaped, extra, half, framed, circumambiant, largest, french, sharp, ruffled, widest, immense, spangled, wear, suited, pious.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective crinoline:
skirts, petticoats, skirt, dress, period, petticoat, dresses, gown, arrangement, bandage, days, wire, frame, fashion, gowns, hoops, lady, hat, age, bandages, strips, underskirt, ladies, slip, otaheitan, cage, era, hose, stretcher, foundation, effect, cloth, steel, slips, groups, hats, mania, put, wires, style, flounces, hoop, gauze, underskirts, girls, frames, straw, model, doll, shape, cut, piece, crown, guard, muslin, soggy, costume, chair, craze, curtain, frock, amplitude, proportions, girl, department, business, envelope, flowers.

Words that sound like crinoline:
crinoline, crinolines, kinnelon, creamily, crimplene, grimily, currently, kremlin, crenelate, crenel, kennelly, cornelio, kenneally, cornellian, crenellate, crenels, crinion, cosmoline, connolly, corinthian, crinkly, connelly, quinlan, crinkling, coronal, crimean, cannily, cronan, crenation, cranley, quinlin, crinal, cannellini, chrome alum, crinum, kronen, cronian, quinolone, kris allen, green line, green lane, granahan, granfalloon, crumbling, chronically, cronin, crumpling, come along, come clean, crenellation, crumley, chronicling, krummel, crimen, conneely, crenelation, critelli, granillo, connelley, kreml, kremen, groningen, adrenaline, cranium, crimson, colonel, adrenalin, cremation, crippling, cannoli, crazily, cringing, crime scene, crewman, crawlin, criminally, cannelloni, conlon, conlan, crooklyn, colonels, conolly, canale, crilly, cross the line, came along, carnally, conlin, crawl in, crimini, cranleigh, canali, cahalan, carinthia, caromel, crosslin, crankily, chris lee, chromogen, croslin.