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

Putting on a slightly padded skin jacket that the friction with her armor had already begun to blacken, she cased her breast in her iron corselet, that Madeleine strapped on as well as she could.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

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

My corselet was torn open under the iron hoofs of the horses.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

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.