Definitions for crinoline

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crinoline crin·o·line

Spelling: [krin-l-in]

IPA: /ˈkrɪn l ɪn/

Crinoline is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in crinoline (ceiilnnor).

Definitions for crinoline

noun

1. a petticoat of haircloth or other stiff material, worn under a full skirt to keep it belled out.
2. a stiff, coarse cotton material for interlining.
3. a hoop skirt.
4. a reinforcement of iron straps for holding together brickwork, as of a furnace or chimney.

Origin of crinoline

1820-30; French Italian crinolino, equivalent to crino horse-hair (≪ Latin crīnis hair) + lino flax Latin līnum; cf. linen

Examples for crinoline

The crinoline, like Milton, is an exception to every law of development.

I am not opposed to crinoline, to trails, to diamonds, nor to rubies.

The word was passed up through the crinoline shaft to the watcher.

I saw them to-day, without any crinoline, pulling the garden-roller.

An awkward predicament is as unfamiliar to me as a crinoline; I have never been in one.

A woman is ashamed to be without a crinoline or a bustle when all the rest wear them.

But Maryanne wore her hoops as a duchess wears her crinoline.

We wear a moderate modicum of crinoline, and are never limp in the morning.

Nor he you in an ordinary silk gown, puffed out with crinoline.

A lady reader who expresses her sentiments prettily on crinoline.