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
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
Putting on a slightly padded skin jacket that the friction with her armor had already begun to blacken, she cased her breast in her iron corselet, that Madeleine strapped on as well as she could.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
His corselet had been broken, disclosing the end of a thin roll of papyrus.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller
Ivan drew from his necktie his breast-pin, and with it closed the countess's corselet.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
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