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

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)

My corselet was torn open under the iron hoofs of the horses.

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

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.

Bande Nere was with them, seated on a rough wooden bench cleaning his corselet, which already shone like silver.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)