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Brewer's: Farthingalo
(3 syl.). A sort of crinoline petticoat. The word means a “guard for modesty.” (French, vertugarde, corrupted into verdingade, and then into farthingale.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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