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 armor was correct from helm to sollerets, with hauberk and corselet, greaves and jambards, while the gauntleted hands were crossed, in true warrior fashion, on the hilt of a long, straight sword.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis

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

From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold

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.