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 manner of tucking the tunic under the corselet when it was worn over it, and so creating festoons, is worthy of notice as interesting in arrangement and design.
From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Talbot Hughes
And still they had seen no moving thing upon the great round breast of the sea that gleamed in its corselet of brass plates under a brazen sun.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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
Jason saw King Æetes in his chariot, a blazing torch lighting his corselet and his helmet.
From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
