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
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 women wear a white chemise; over that a very small corselet, and over that a red jacket with blue and black velvet facings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The sun flashed upon the glittering links of his gilded corselet.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller
Putting on a slightly padded skin jacket that the friction with her armor had already begun to blacken, she cased her breast in her iron corselet, that Madeleine strapped on as well as she could.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
