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say it: FAHR-thing-gayl
farthingale is a noun meaning "a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries". It carries one recorded sense.
a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for farthingale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.