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
He is standing by a broken column, and is dressed in yellow silk and brown velvet, a corselet, a lace cravat, and a red scarf.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
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 Robert H. Fuller
The manner of tucking the tunic under the corselet when it was worn over it, and so creating festoons, is worthy of notice as interesting in arrangement and design.
From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Talbot Hughes
A linen corselet came into use instead of the heavy metal cuirass.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy
