corselet
Americannoun
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Also corselette a woman's lightweight foundation garment combining a brassiere and girdle in one piece.
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Armor. Also corslet
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a suit of light half armor or three-quarter armor of the 16th century or later.
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noun
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Also spelt: corslet. a piece of armour for the top part of the body
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a one-piece foundation garment, usually combining a brassiere and a corset
Etymology
Origin of corselet
1490–1500; < Middle French, equivalent to cors “bodice, body” + -elet -let
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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
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
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.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
They exchanged the pastoral crook for the sword, the episcopal mitre for a casque, and their sacerdotal robes for the corselet of the soldier.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
A beautiful captain, An officer grand, With corselet of steel And an air of command!
From The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda by Victor Hugo
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