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

A corselet of reserve drew about him; the old subtle reservation again veiled his eyes.

From Caybigan by Hopper, James

This linen corselet was found also among the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

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

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 Singleton, Esther