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The Spanish Farthingale was a bell-shaped hoopskirt worn under the skirts of well-to-do women during the Tudor and Elizabethan era. From 1530 to 1580, the farthingale played an important part in shaping the fashionable silhouette.
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www.elizabethancostume.net/farthingale/history.html
www.elizabethancostume.net/farthingale/history.html
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Farthingale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Farthingale is a term applied to any of several structures used under Western European women's clothing in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to support the skirts into the desired shape. It ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthingale
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The Spanish Farthingale before the hoops… seems long but the hoop casings are made by pleating the farthingale so the length gets taken up.
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www.farthingales.on.ca/spanish_farthingale.html
www.farthingales.on.ca/spanish_farthingale.html
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The farthingale was not extreme in shape or size and the "hoops" were made of various materials, rags reeds/grass and ropes encased in fabric of linen or silk and sometimes as stiff as buckram. By the 1580's whale bone was incorporated into the hoops.
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www.farthingales.on.ca/tudor.htm
www.farthingales.on.ca/tudor.htm
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Learn more about farthingale with a free trial on Britannica.com ... [Alteration of obsolete verdynggale, from Old French verdugale, from Old Spanish verdugado, from verdugo, stick, shoot of a tree, from verde, green, from Latin viridis, from virēre, to be green.]
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/farthingale
dictionary.reference.com/browse/farthingale
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I had previously tried to make a French Farthingale (the most common modern term for the “Great Farthingale” of QEI’s time) using the “wheel” arrangement (V1.0), with spokes radiating out from the waist band which supported the main hoop that delineated the edge of the farthingale.
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www.myfairelady.com/?page_id=6
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Spanish courses, lessons, and tutorials for adults private and group classes in New York City by experienced native professor one block from Penn Station! ... Tapas -Spanish dishes often referred to as little appetizers- are making a big statement in the New York dining world. Similar to a chef's tasting table,
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Explanation of when written accents are used in Spanish. ... Beginning Spanish students usually learn right away that the main use of the accent is to help with pronunciation, and specifically in telling the speaker which syllable of a word should be stressed.
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spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/accentonaccents.h...
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Learn more about Uruguay, where Spanish is spoken. ... History: Before the arrival of Spanish colonists, the main occupants of what is now Uruguay were the Charrúa, whose economy was based mainly on hunting and fishing. Little evidence of their existence remains today.
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spanish.about.com/library/countries/aa-countries-urugua...
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