How to Use crinoline in a Sentence

crinoline

noun

• The dress even has tutu-style crinoline at the bottom with all over blue and gold stars.
  — Lisa Levine, Variety, 3 Oct. 2022
• By the mid-1860s, the museum writes, the crinoline had already begun to be replaced by the bustle.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• By the mid-1860s, the museum writes, the crinoline had already begun to be replaced by the bustle.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
• Working girls don't have the time or inclination for a mussed bouffant or a crinoline like the runways showed.
  — Anamaria Wilson, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2010
• Pointedly, the shoulder width was achieved through whalebones that could be removed; ditto the bell skirts and their crinolines.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• The skeletal crinolines were then fleshed out as the show progressed with layers of tweed fabric evoking Marie Antoinette or perhaps the Snow Queen.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• The simple part was the dress, which was ordered straight from Amazon: a 1950s style black-and-white striped dress by Tempt Me with additional crinoline for volume.
  — Evelyn Wang, Teen Vogue, 31 Oct. 2017
• Only here, in many cases, they were taken to extremes, the coats and capes pumped up with air, the dresses made more expressive with layers of crinolines.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2019
• After hemming a half-dozen slips and crinolines on Xhaxho's ball gown, Olsen spent an hour teaching the bride's mother how to lace up the corset built into the gown to hold up the 20-pound skirt and train that swept down the aisle.
  — Mary Anne Chute Lynch, courant.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• In the 19th century, crinoline, a structured petticoat, was used to widen women's skirts to and make waists appear smaller.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2023
• Ordinary citizens strolled about in Joycean costume: dresses of crinoline and velvet, or striped vests, straw boaters, and walking sticks.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 16 June 2020
• Giant bowling shoes redesigned as dolphins led on to truncated shells of crinolines.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• Dress everyone comfortably…if kids are uncomfortable and crinolines and suits are itchy…no one will look happy!
  — Monica Rich Kosann, Town & Country, 12 Nov. 2013
• Not only does the woman in the turquoise dress and crinoline petticoat morph into a cotton tree, but also the artist morphs Haiti’s slave history on the sugar plantations with the role cotton played in the United States.
  — Siobhan Morrissey, miamiherald, 13 Oct. 2017
• The ensemble featured a black crinoline frill appliqué and was fully embellished with crystals and sequins.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2020
• During the five-week course, students can expect to learn about courtly fashions, the craze for crinoline and how members of the royal family influence fashion today.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• At dinner women in crinolines and powdered wigs play Baroque string instruments, a harpsichord, and a harp under the gleaming chinoiserie.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
• At dinner women in crinolines and powdered wigs play Baroque string instruments, a harpsichord, and a harp under the gleaming chinoiserie.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
• Schaar is luminous and mischievous as Rosalind, who grows to relish the freedom of discarding her 1950s crinoline dress and high heels for manly apparel and a pencil moustache.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• The crinoline and boning typical of the brand’s founder’s creations were yanked out of the silhouettes, though, and the fabric was rumpled, underscoring Catherine’s working-woman story.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Mar. 2023
• Her designs became a commentary on hyper-femininity, sending up styles like the crinoline and the mini-skirt.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• Similarly, when Fanny dies horribly after her clothes accidentally catch fire, we are told at length about the dangers of crinoline in the age of candles.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 3 June 2020
• The bride, 29, wore a custom Armani Privé white crinoline lace bustier column gown for her intimate ceremony that featured a a full skirt that extended into a lace train.
  — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2019
• But this show was light and expressive, inspired by Catherine de Medici with several crinoline-like skirts and unstructured panniers layered over silky shirts.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2022
• For the intimate ceremony, the bride wore a stunning custom Armani Privé white crinoline lace bustier column gown that featured a full skirt that extended into a lace train.
  — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
• In a giant, face-framing flower and deconstructed Betty Boop sweater; with a little lilac leopard-print riding hood and sequined slip dresses carried along on the cruise ship of a raspberry crinoline.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• Basbanes goes on at length about the flammable properties of crinoline dresses and a murder involving a Harvard professor that engaged Longfellow's attention but had nothing to do with him.
  — Kevin Duchschere, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• The corsets, platform shoes and mini-crinis (a combination Victorian crinoline and miniskirt) became her hallmarks.
  — Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• There were crinoline explosions and Panama teardrops, tiny little fascinators and huge brimmed sunbonnets.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 30 May 2017
• The crinoline has allowed John Galliano, another keen student of history, to experiment with extreme volume.
  — Vogue, 11 June 2018

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