• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɑːðɪŋɡeɪl/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈfɑɹðɪŋɡeɪl/

farthingale (plural farthingales)

1. (historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     women […] make trunk-sleeves of wyre and whale-bone bodies, backes of lathes, and stiffe bumbasted verdugals, and to the open-view of all men paint and embellish themselves with counterfeit and borrowed beauties […].

   • 2003, Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian, 3 May 2003:

     In Henry VIII's Great Hall, there were men in doublets and codpieces prancing up and down with women in farthingales.

• hoop skirt

• French: crinoline