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 border knights apparently put on steel cap and corselet when they went wooing.

From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold

The armor was correct from helm to sollerets, with hauberk and corselet, greaves and jambards, while the gauntleted hands were crossed, in true warrior fashion, on the hilt of a long, straight sword.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis

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

Bande Nere was with them, seated on a rough wooden bench cleaning his corselet, which already shone like silver.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)