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 Hughes, Talbot

They exchanged the pastoral crook for the sword, the episcopal mitre for a casque, and their sacerdotal robes for the corselet of the soldier.

From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von

I 'Tis time to leave the books in dust, And oil the unused armour's rust, Removing from the wall The corselet of the hall.

From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta

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 Russell, John