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

Together we put the corselet on me, and then I fixed the helmet and followed Perez's lead.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace

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.

Her whole mind was in a turmoil of thought, and every time the infamous letter crackled beneath her corselet, she shuddered as with fear.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff