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On the 2,950-square-mile game preserve of India's multimillionaire Maharaja of Gwalior, the Maharaja and another potentate, Yugoslavia's well-corseted and bemedaled Marshal Tito, went hunting for tigers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the reign of Farouk the self-indulgent, she grew into a well-corseted, fur-and diamond-bearing woman of property.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in truth her inward spirit was not nearly as determined as her well-corseted back.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

The Susan of to-day was an erect, well-corseted, well-manicured woman of the world; a person of noticeable nicety of speech, accustomed to move in the very highest society.

From Saturday's Child by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

She was a handsome woman, still in the early forties, and the word "stylish" inevitably leaped to one's mind at the sight of her full, well-corseted figure, fashionable raiment, and carefully coiffured hair.

From The Splendid Folly by Pedler, Margaret