Obs. Also 6 vardygall, 7 vertugal, vertigal. [OF. verdugale, vertugale: see VARDINGALE.] A farthingale.
1558–9. Sir R. Clough, in Burgon, Gresham (1839), I. iv. 251. After that, came 1 other horse coveryd with cloth of golde to the grownde, which stoode lyke unto the gentyllwomen’s vardygalls.
1584. Hudson, Du Bartas’ Judith, V. 215. Amongst his vertugals for ayde he drew From his Lieutenant.
1611. Coryat’s Crudities, Panegyr. Verses. The Gallery of ‘Donna Amorosa’ … in Arabia Deserta which is a meere Magazin of verdugals.
