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 border knights apparently put on steel cap and corselet when they went wooing.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
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
His trousers, after exhausting the ordinary number of buttons in front, prolonged themselves into a kind of corselet that drew attention to the slimness of his waist.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
A linen corselet came into use instead of the heavy metal cuirass.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy
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