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

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 Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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 Weyman, Stanley J.

Ivan drew from his necktie his breast-pin, and with it closed the countess's corselet.

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór

And still they had seen no moving thing upon the great round breast of the sea that gleamed in its corselet of brass plates under a brazen sun.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John