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
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 border knights apparently put on steel cap and corselet when they went wooing.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
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 Stanley J. Weyman
Her whole mind was in a turmoil of thought, and every time the infamous letter crackled beneath her corselet, she shuddered as with fear.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
