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
His corselet, steel cap, and gauntlets lay beside him, and seemed to show that he had just come in from the field.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
Bande Nere was with them, seated on a rough wooden bench cleaning his corselet, which already shone like silver.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
Zouave jackets were occasionally worn in the forties and later in the early sixties, when the wide corselet belt was again favoured.
From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Hughes, Talbot
A corselet of reserve drew about him; the old subtle reservation again veiled his eyes.
From Caybigan by Hopper, James
