different between farthingdale vs farthingale

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farthingdale (plural farthingdales)

(Britain, historical, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.

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Hobson-Jobson of earlier forms vardingale, etc., borrowed from Middle French verdugale, from Spanish verdugado, from verdugo (“rod”).

farthingale (plural farthingales)

(historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
- 2003, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian, 3 May 2003:
  In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.
Synonym: hoop skirt

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