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CRINOLINE [4 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
OBS

crinoline : an item in the "Clothing" class of the "Personal Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
OBS

crinoline : objet de la classe «Vêtements» de la catégorie «Objets personnels».

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

cage crinoline : an item in the "Clothing" class of the "Personal Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

crinoline-cage : objet de la classe «Vêtements» de la catégorie «Objets personnels».

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fabric Nomenclature
DEF

A loose-weave cotton fabric used especially to shade growing tobacco plants.

CONT

Originally used as a wrapping material for pressing cheese. Loosely woven, thin, light in weight, open in construction, and soft. Carded yarns are always used. It is also called gauze weave. When woven in 36" widths it is called tobacco cloth. When an applied finish is added, it is called buckram, crinoline, or bunting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Nomenclature des tissus
DEF

Mousseline de coton à tissage très lâche.

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clothing Accessories
CONT

A stiff or unpliable material used to stiffen a costume... the crinoline was the name also given to the spring steel hoops set into a petticoat or unto cloth strips to hold the petticoats and skirts away from the body in a bell shape.(A Costume History and Style, 1983, p. 502).

CONT

Until the invention of steel-ringed crinoline it was necessary--in order to make the skirt swell to the desired balloon-like proportions--to wear petticoats... padded with horsehair.(Historic Costuming, 1966, p. 93).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Accessoires vestimentaires
CONT

La crinoline, d'abord jupon raide de tissu de crin, de forme circulaire devient une véritable cage de baleines ou de cercles métalliques qui ne dispense pas de porter des jupons. (Histoire du costume en occident de l'antiquité à nos jours, 1965, p. 375).

CONT

La crinoline doit son nom à l'étoffe tramée du crin dans laquelle elle est réalisée. (Le costume (Restauration-Belle Époque, 1990, p. 19).

Spanish

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