What is "hoopskirt"

Usage examples of "hoopskirt".

The tiered planks were close to capacity, mainly occupied by old folks, hoopskirted women and girl children.

Revealing a vision, in her black velvet hoopskirt, more than spanning the whole doorway, with its beautiful lace collar and its huge garnet brooch at the white throat.

Attained the settee again, but, still standing, turned his back dutifully till she could tilt her hoopskirt, and drop somehow into or upon the chair.

She wore not a hoopskirt, but a plum-colored velvet street- or shopping-garment, with flounces, and a long train she had to pick up in a gloved hand whose lace fell over her fingers.

Duane drop a Gothic novel with a cover illustration of a tortured-looking woman in a hoopskirt into our bag.

After, that is, stooping over and retrieving the morning paper for her, and after, in turn, her voluminous hoopskirts, with her in them, had moved far enough off from the door opening to give him ingress.

During this brief magical spell, it was easy to see where the idea of crinoline, hoopskirts, and ruffles culminated in the creation of the belle.

I regretted having yelled, but when it comes to creepy-crawlies I immediately lose my gonads, become all hoopskirts and fluster.

The crinolines and the vast hoopskirts had been put away, and although each enjoyed showing off her morning robe to the other ladies, strange men were forbidden to gaze on these feminine mysteries.

She worked so fast that she was turning back to the bin while her hoopskirts were still whirling the other way.

Alice was pretty and gay, with the breeze blowing her curls and setting her hoopskirts swaying.

It's not Back-o'-the-Docks yet, but it's definitely more colorful now, lots of mollyboys, lots of girls and women, hoopskirts and headdresses, glitter and glitz.

An old design that showed a woman in hoopskirts, with a little parasol over her dainty shoulder.

The sleighs came jingling from the barn, and Father and Mother helped tuck in the blankets and laprobes, over the hoopskirts.

But you try to get in one of those little shithouses with a hoopskirt on.