crinoline

Other forms of crinoline

plural

crinolines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crinoline

What does crinoline mean?

crinoline means "a skirt stiffened with hoops". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crinoline?

crinoline has 3 syllables: cri-no-line. The stress falls on "cri".

What is another word for crinoline?

Close synonyms include hoopskirt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crinoline a common word?

crinoline is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.