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 ample chest was covered with a corselet of light scale-armour, which yielded to every motion of his frame, and was partially concealed by a broad sash, and a capacious velvet mantle.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
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
"Why did he wear his corselet?" she wailed, as if she had not heard him.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
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 S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
