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corselet

noun as in corset

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In the garment district, Ms. Canner produces lightweight reflective corselets, ostrich-trimmed jackets, vests, sashes and belts that slip over outerwear and resemble glowing lingerie.

His trousers, after exhausting the ordinary number of buttons in front, prolonged themselves into a kind of corselet that drew attention to the slimness of his waist.

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.

His own horses he ordered now to be unsaddled, and casting off his corselet, gave himself up to repose for the evening.

So strong, so determined was that blow, that the weapon entered to the very haft, and there remained, fixed between the corselet and the brassard, so that the boy could not withdraw it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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