PREFERRED TERM
Polonaise
DEFINITION
- n. A borrowing from the French "polonaise". Historically has meant a woman's dress which consists of a tight, unboned bodice and a skirt open from the waist downwards to reveal a decorative underskirt.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- robe à la polonaise
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Polonaise
French
Polonaise
Italian
Polonesa
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/540
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