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 Phillips, Henry Wallace
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 Singleton, Esther
A beautiful captain, An officer grand, With corselet of steel And an air of command!
From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Hugo, Victor
"Why did he wear his corselet?" she wailed, as if she had not heard him.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.
