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
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
He is standing by a broken column, and is dressed in yellow silk and brown velvet, a corselet, a lace cravat, and a red scarf.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
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 S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
"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 Stanley J. Weyman
