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Example sentences for "crinoline"

Lexicographically close words:
crinkles; crinkling; crinkly; crinoid; crinoids; crinolines; criollo; cripple; crippled; cripples
  1. An overweening propensity to show and frivolity characterizes our women, and therefore they wear crinoline in spite of the protestations of the men.

  2. He spread his wings stiffly like a crinoline around his body, strutted about the yard, uttered a gallant guttural gobble, and played the fine lady in style.

  3. Crinoline is to me the type of the woman of our day--an empty, vain, inflated something.

  4. So deep that even the detested crinoline that encircled her person in large hoops found favor in my sight.

  5. Before we approach the "sixties," with their extraordinary revival of the hoop or crinoline fashion, we must remark on the extraordinary fashion-plate promulgated for the year 1854.

  6. Happily, the prophets proved false for once, and the fashion passed away, just as a year or two ago the threatened crinoline scare passed away with us.

  7. Crinoline had to run its course although not before it had been guilty of many enormities, as will be seen by the appended plate.

  8. Our grandmothers in their crinoline may have looked like walking hay-cocks; but the young women of Otaheite who carry presents from one person of rank to another look as if they were issuing from an immense drum.

  9. Bob Sasnett figured as the first candidate in Jordan County who would run for office on the crinoline ticket.

  10. And if they settle Mike, you'll run on the crinoline ticket, I suppose?

  11. They stamped their feet, they hooted, they looked at the still empty stage and demanded to know where were the leaders of the "Crinoline Campaign.

  12. He feels sure that he will be elected by an overwhelming majority of the crinoline vote.

  13. Once they began to have opinions about that matter they soon sent the crinoline on its way.

  14. When the crinoline went out the train came in; so that though woman had allowed herself more freedom, man could only walk behind her at a respectful distance with a ceremonial measure of pace.

  15. Women did not take to moving with freedom because the crinoline went out, but the crinoline went out when they took to moving with freedom.

  16. A shake of the head too quickly and the coiffure was imperilled; the movements that came within the prescribed circle of dignity within the circle of the crinoline were all of a rhythmical order.

  17. In this way the crinoline will be neither too short nor too loose and all wrinkling will be prevented.

  18. A bias strip of silk sufficiently wide to cover the crinoline is hemmed at the lower edge and to the sleeve lining just above the interlining.

  19. For the collar or neck band have a true bias of thin canvas or crinoline and draw it around the neck and pin with the ends out, towards the worker.

  20. To do this, turn the sleeve right side out and slip the crinoline in the sleeve over the left hand and adjust by moving the fingers until the crinoline shapes itself to the sleeve perfectly, then pin and baste at the top and bottom.

  21. A much preferable method is to baste a bias strip of crinoline along the positions to be occupied by the hooks and eyes; this gives strength to the finish.

  22. The hooks and eyes are sewed securely through the crinoline and one thickness, but the stitches should not show on the outside.

  23. Sidenote: Finish at Wrist] For the sleeve finished plainly around the wrist, a piece of bias crinoline should be fitted at the hand.

  24. In a close-fitting collar made of heavy material an interlining of canvas or crinoline is necessary.

  25. There should be an underfacing of light-weight crinoline to make the bottom of the skirt firm and to give strength.

  26. Then there was such a scattering of crinoline below, and such a gathering of cotton above, to see the gentleman alight, and such speculations as to his Christian name, and which of the young ladies he would do for.

  27. And thus the crinoline came circling into the supper room--each lady again expanding with the increased space, and reclaiming her beau.

  28. Her feelings being thus relieved, and the fire about exhausted, she then got out of her crinoline and under the counterpane.

  29. The waist was higher than any she had had before, and the crinoline expansive.

  30. The crinoline had not quite reached its full circumference, and the dress-improver had not even been thought of.

  31. She was so distraught that she could not manage her crinoline in the doorway.

  32. A cheaper competitor to crinoline was brought out about 1870, when imitations in cotton fibre braids were put on the market, but these missed entirely the delicate open work of the real article.

  33. Bonnets were extensively made about fifty or sixty years ago of “Crinoline Fancy” plaits that were a mixture of the hair with silk, or straw, or Tuscan, or any similar fibres.

  34. As plaits of lace-like appearance came on the market (those of crinoline and fancy adornments, for example) the temporary linings were made from various colours of tissue paper.

  35. It is now used for dyeing crinoline and those silk plaits which would be spoiled by heated baths.

  36. Crinoline forbidden on locomotives, 210; its introduction into England, note, ib.

  37. The first admission of crinoline into England is thus described by Miss Agnes Strickland in Vol.

  38. It may look suspiciously like it when we see a mere swing of the pendulum carrying the straight sheath out to the ten-yard limit of crinoline skirts.

  39. You will observe that under the head of crinoline and hoop-skirt periods, there are a variety of outlines, markedly different.

  40. The lowest rim of the crinoline promptly stood straight up from the ground like a hoop, displaying her long legs and the multitudinous petticoats lying limply upon them, and she was forced to adopt a change of position.

  41. She swung round at him with that beautiful sway only a crinoline can give, checking the movement abruptly so that the full sphere of muslin went surging back for another half-turn while her body stayed rigid.

  42. Each little movement--a raised eyebrow seems almost enough--and the crinoline sways this way and that, divinely true at the waist alone.

  43. D'you know, I never watch a pretty woman in a crinoline but the thought doesn't strike me?

  44. Hitherto their crinoline petticoats, late hours, and mincing gait had been a fair subject of Mrs Greenacre's raillery, and this raillery had been a safety valve for her envy.

  45. Madeline could always dispose herself so as to make room for a gentleman, though, as she declared, the crinoline of her lady friends was much too bulky to be so accommodated.

  46. A good-looking girl without crinoline had a sort of unworldly freshness of air that really constituted a charm.

  47. She (my aunt) had on a new crinoline that morning, in which, to use her own expression, she rather fancied herself.

  48. But whichever way he charged; there was the crinoline in front of him.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crinoline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    corduroy; cotton; dress; fabric; nylon; petticoat; skirt; undergarments