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.

His own horses he ordered now to be unsaddled, and casting off his corselet, gave himself up to repose for the evening.

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

The border knights apparently put on steel cap and corselet when they went wooing.

From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold

This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff