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

In a corner of the room lay his helmet and sword, and he himself was in half-mail, wearing a Milanese corselet, on which was emblazoned the red dragon of his house.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

Bande Nere was with them, seated on a rough wooden bench cleaning his corselet, which already shone like silver.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

"Why did he wear his corselet?" she wailed, as if she had not heard him.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

A linen corselet came into use instead of the heavy metal cuirass.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff