brassiere
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“The odd couple,” he barks, lifting up a brassiere fashioned so that one cup is larger than the other.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
The film’s laughs come from empathy, not derision, when a brassiere saleswoman tut-tuts that Margaret is “not even a 32A.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
Only when DNA technology advanced to the point where a complete genetic profile could be developed from evidence gleaned from the girl’s brassiere could a solid link be made, Detective Leah Wagner said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2020
The US actress and singer, now 83, also patented a brassiere with hidden straps.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2017
What I see first is a picture: the Venus de Milo, in a black-and- white photo, with a mustache and a black brassiere and armpit hair drawn clumsily on her.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
With ceremony, Margaret calls the date she’s going with her mother to buy her first brassieres “Bra Day.”
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2019
The exhibition traces the history of brassieres, from their development as "bust supporters" in the 1860s through their wide adoption in the early 20th century to the introduction of Lycra in the late 1950s.
From US News ● Apr. 13, 2016
But brassieres aren’t designed for us—they get loose.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2013
Similarly, those holding vehemently antifeminist beliefs considered the book an unforgivably radical text, full of screeds against everything from marital rape to — you guessed it — the tyranny of brassieres.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2013
In the spring of 1959, when discussions of my fertilization got under way, my mother couldn’t foresee that women would soon be burning their brassieres by the thousand.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
