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
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 Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
I 'Tis time to leave the books in dust, And oil the unused armour's rust, Removing from the wall The corselet of the hall.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
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 Stanley J. Weyman
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 Talbot Hughes
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