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corselet

[kawr-suh-let, kawrs-lit] / ˌkɔr səˈlɛt, ˈkɔrs lɪt /
NOUN
corset
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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

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 Eug?ne Sue

"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 Stanley J. Weyman

I 'Tis time to leave the books in dust, And oil the unused armour's rust, Removing from the wall The corselet of the hall.

From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

The something I guessed at once was a corselet, and it needed scarce another thought to apprise me that Dymphna's follower was not Van Tree at all, but a Spanish soldier!

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman


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