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
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 Henry Wallace Phillips
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 S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
His ample chest was covered with a corselet of light scale-armour, which yielded to every motion of his frame, and was partially concealed by a broad sash, and a capacious velvet mantle.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
Her whole mind was in a turmoil of thought, and every time the infamous letter crackled beneath her corselet, she shuddered as with fear.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
