Meanings of hoopskirt in English

An old hoopskirt came with it, and Betsy laughed and threw it away.

She had discarded her hoopskirt and appeared not unlike a nun.

He's more fun than a Harlem goat with a hoopskirt.

Their waiter is a stumpy guy in a hoopskirt.

I am truly a horrid, old-time, hoopskirt-minded prude.

The lead tank swung in the street with the cautious delicacy of an elephant wearing a hoopskirt.

I'm a dingy old shadow in a daguerreotype picture, in pantalets, cuddled up against my mother's hoopskirt.

She stood among them, silent, immense, clad in her dark purple silk gown spread over a great hoopskirt.

Emma owned a property so "old Charleston" it should have been dressed in a hoopskirt and crinolines.

The thing frightened Hank, who had never seen a hoopskirt before, and he kept a good distance away from it.

The judge thought the exercise she had taken must have been too severe, and probably the hoopskirt was not sufficiently nutritious.

I particularly admire these things, these toys: the little dog, the sled, the lady with the hoopskirt, all these things are pure silver.

The first five feet had revealed nothing but fragments of kitchen pottery of our time and a fairly perfect hoopskirt of Garibaldian date.

She and Alice wore the costumes of generations ago, big bonnets and hoopskirts.

Around they went in a giddy whirl and starched petticoats stood out like hoopskirts.

Others reigned proudly over the surrounding fields, as if the days of white-suited planters and their hoopskirted daughters had never vanished.