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

The manner of tucking the tunic under the corselet when it was worn over it, and so creating festoons, is worthy of notice as interesting in arrangement and design.

From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Hughes, Talbot

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 Sue, Eug?ne

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 Haynes, Henrietta

This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff