crinoline

Borrowed from French crinoline.

crinoline (countable and uncountable, plural crinolines)

1. A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.
2. A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.
3. A skirt stiffened with hoops.
4. Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.
5. Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.

• lonicerin

Latin crinis (“hair”) + linum (“flax”)

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crinoline f (plural crinolines)

1. crinoline

• “crinoline” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

crinoline f

1. plural of crinolina

• inclinerò
• reclinino