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 sun flashed upon the glittering links of his gilded corselet.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
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
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 Russell, John
