tontillo.
Clothes. Petticoat or other lower garment with whale hoops or other material that women used to hollow out the skirts.
Meaning & usage
Clothes. Petticoat or other lower garment with whale hoops or other material that women used to hollow out the skirts.
Woven piece of bristle or rubberised cotton, which the tailors put in the folds of the jackets to hollow them out.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Spanish tonto Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old Spanish -iello Spanish -illo Spanish tontillo From tonto + -illo.
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