Hooped vs Farthingale - What's the difference?
hooped | farthingale |
(hoop)
A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
(mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
* Alexander Pope
A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(plural) The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
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A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
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*:women.
*2003 , (Alexander Chancellor), The Guardian , 3 May 2003:
*:In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales .
As a verb hooped
is (hoop).As a noun farthingale is
a hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.hooped
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Verb
(head)hoop
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(wikipedia hoop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
- stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
- (Halliwell)
hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
Derived terms
* hula hoop * jump through hoopsVerb
(en verb)- to hoop a barrel or puncheon
- (Shakespeare)