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A crinoline is a round frame that women in the past wore under a long skirt to hold it out in a wide bell, away from the body. In the mid-1800s this was high fashion in Europe and America; a skirt could be so wide that two people could hardly walk through a door together. Early ones used stiff cloth; later ones used hoops of steel or whalebone. You would not wear one to work today. You meet the word in history, costume, museums, and old stories. Though actually people sometimes stretch it to mean any very full, stiff underskirt, even when there is no hard cage inside.
裙撐；蓬裙骨架
組成Borrowed from French crinoline. In French the word was built from crin (horsehair) and lin (linen), because the first stiff cloth mixed those two. English took the whole word in; we did not build it from English pieces.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crinolinenoun/ˈkɹɪnəlɪn/
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A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.
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A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.
- These standards have not just been oppressive but deadly. In the nineteenth century, stiff crinoline petticoats puffed out skirts so far that the cheap materials often brushed against open flames and caught fire. This arbitrary convention of dress caused three thousand women to be burned alive.
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A skirt stiffened with hoops.
- The various articles of a lady's apparel—dresses, skirts, crinolines, etc.—should be hung neatly away in the closet or wardrobe. The underclothing should be folded and placed in an orderly manner in the drawers of the dressing-bureau.
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Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.
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Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。