anklebone
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Before then, women wore corsets stiffened with metal or whalebones for support.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2014
In addition, whalebones could be used to stiffen corsets, skin could be cured for leather, and ambergris, the aromatic digestive substance, could be incorporated into perfumes.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2010
She sat near him now in a snug satin dinner-dress full of whalebones and hooks and eyes.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
Seeking shells and seaweed on the sands of Monterey, Watching all the mighty whalebones, lying buried by the breeze, Tiny sandy-pipers, and the huge Pacific seas.
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Gutmann, Bessie Pease
There was writing in his dressing-case, writing in his boots, writing among his shaving-tackle, writing in his hat-box, writing folded away down among the very whalebones of his umbrella.
From Somebody's Luggage by Dickens, Charles
