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 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

Jason saw King Æetes in his chariot, a blazing torch lighting his corselet and his helmet.

From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic

An arrow pierced her bosom, but drawing it out with her own hand and throwing it aside, she showed the French her blood-stained corselet, and once more urged them on.

From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence

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