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
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
His own horses he ordered now to be unsaddled, and casting off his corselet, gave himself up to repose for the evening.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
And still they had seen no moving thing upon the great round breast of the sea that gleamed in its corselet of brass plates under a brazen sun.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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