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 something I guessed at once was a corselet, and it needed scarce another thought to apprise me that Dymphna's follower was not Van Tree at all, but a Spanish soldier!

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John

Still at the age of vigorous manhood, he wore an iron corselet and arm-pieces, while a heavy sword hung from his side.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

Together we put the corselet on me, and then I fixed the helmet and followed Perez's lead.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace

An arrow pierced her bosom, but drawing it out with her own hand and throwing it aside, she showed the French her blood-stained corselet, and once more urged them on.

From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence