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
Pizarro drew from his corselet an order of arrest and proceeded to read it, while Balboa regarded him with reproachful astonishment.
From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober
This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy
I 'Tis time to leave the books in dust, And oil the unused armour's rust, Removing from the wall The corselet of the hall.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
