farlingale

Updated: July 16, 2025

"He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale. I now fancied him changing sexes; and as my eyes began to close in slumber, I imagined my fat landlord actually converted into as fat a landlady.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London