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

"Why did he wear his corselet?" she wailed, as if she had not heard him.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

His own horses he ordered now to be unsaddled, and casting off his corselet, gave himself up to repose for the evening.

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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

From Caybigan by Hopper, James

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