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farthingale n.(十六、七世紀婦女撐開裙子用的)鯨骨襯箍;用鯨骨箍等...

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The age had not so much refinement , that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways , and wedging their not unsubstantial persons , if occasion were , into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution 那年月沒有那么多文明講究,身著襯裙和撐裙的女人們公然出入于大庭廣眾之中,只要有可能,便要撅動姻們那并不嬌弱的軀體,擠進最靠近刑臺的人群中去,也不會緞入什么不成體統的感覺。

This happened to poor catherine of braganza at her wedding to charles ii of britain in 1662 , when her pink farthingale was castigated as dowdy 1662年,凱瑟琳公主下嫁英國的查理斯二世,她穿了一條用鯨骨圓環擴大的粉紅色裙子行禮,結果被視為過于寒酸。