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
They exchanged the pastoral crook for the sword, the episcopal mitre for a casque, and their sacerdotal robes for the corselet of the soldier.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von
This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
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)
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 Hughes, Talbot
