uncorseted
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a word derived from
corset.
corsetnounSometimes corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
Example Sentences
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Greek maenads were the model for a new, uncorseted way of moving, leaping and dancing.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2017
It was “the play that uncorseted the American theater with its earthy, two-fisted vitality” according to Tennessee Williams.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2016
Exuberantly uncorseted, her torso looks like a gunnysack full of galoshes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This version, by a translator who understands the high art of low humor, is conspicuously uncorseted and, what is more unusual, funny.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Bella, sunk in heavy, uncorseted despair upon the mess chest, gripped her children to her knees as though an army of ravishers menaced the house of McMurdo.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner