crinoline
(noun) a stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing
crinoline
(noun) a full stiff petticoat made of crinoline fabric
hoopskirt, crinoline
(noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops
Source: WordNet® 3.1
crinoline (countable and uncountable, plural crinolines)
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.
• lonicerin
Source: Wiktionary
Crin"o*line (krn"-ln), n. Etym: [F., fr. crin hair,L. crinis.]
1. A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.
2. A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
