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

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 Fuller, Robert H.

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

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

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 Hugo, Victor

"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.