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

This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

His corselet had been broken, disclosing the end of a thin roll of papyrus.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

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

The border knights apparently put on steel cap and corselet when they went wooing.

From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold