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
They exchanged the pastoral crook for the sword, the episcopal mitre for a casque, and their sacerdotal robes for the corselet of the soldier.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
Her whole mind was in a turmoil of thought, and every time the infamous letter crackled beneath her corselet, she shuddered as with fear.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
An arrow pierced her bosom, but drawing it out with her own hand and throwing it aside, she showed the French her blood-stained corselet, and once more urged them on.
From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey
The border knights apparently put on steel cap and corselet when they went wooing.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
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