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 Victor Hugo
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
Still at the age of vigorous manhood, he wore an iron corselet and arm-pieces, while a heavy sword hung from his side.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
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
