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, 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
Ivan drew from his necktie his breast-pin, and with it closed the countess's corselet.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
Herodotus describes 201 the corselet given by Amasis king of Egypt to the Minerva of Lindus and how it was inwoven or embroidered with gold.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
The armor was correct from helm to sollerets, with hauberk and corselet, greaves and jambards, while the gauntleted hands were crossed, in true warrior fashion, on the hilt of a long, straight sword.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy
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