corselet

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Famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who danced the part first in 1938, turned up as Venus in droopy net stockings, ruffled corselet and a blonde wig suggesting Gorgeous George playing Lady Godiva.

From Time Magazine Archive

A beautiful captain, An officer grand, With corselet of steel And an air of command!

From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Hugo, Victor

His corselet had been broken, disclosing the end of a thin roll of papyrus.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

His corselet, steel cap, and gauntlets lay beside him, and seemed to show that he had just come in from the field.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

In a corner of the room lay his helmet and sword, and he himself was in half-mail, wearing a Milanese corselet, on which was emblazoned the red dragon of his house.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)