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hoop skirt

noun

  1. a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
  2. the framework for such a skirt.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hoop skirt1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

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Example Sentences

The French designer presented a hoop-skirt gown that was turned up to reveal four little girls crouching underneath.

Her hoop skirt was ever in need of repair, with tapes that had broken from their moorings or strings that had come loose.

I next entered the room previously occupied by the late runaway maid, and found three old dresses and a hoop skirt left by her.

This load she had carried suspended from her waist and concealed under the large hoop-skirt then worn by ladies.

It was the days of the hoop-skirt and she just about filled the door, so that nobody might see past her.

You don't expect her to fetch you a new bonnet and a hoop skirt seven feet wide.

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