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

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

Rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, and pearls, chains of gold and corselet bestudded with stones fit setting for an empress of the Orient, encased the unconscious form of the young rascal.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler

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.

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