corselet
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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
The something I guessed at once was a corselet, and it needed scarce another thought to apprise me that Dymphna's follower was not Van Tree at all, but a Spanish soldier!
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
Ivan drew from his necktie his breast-pin, and with it closed the countess's corselet.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
Zouave jackets were occasionally worn in the forties and later in the early sixties, when the wide corselet belt was again favoured.
From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Talbot Hughes
This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy
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