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

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

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

Ivan drew from his necktie his breast-pin, and with it closed the countess's corselet.

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór