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 Henry Wallace Phillips
The manner of tucking the tunic under the corselet when it was worn over it, and so creating festoons, is worthy of notice as interesting in arrangement and design.
From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Talbot Hughes
In a corner of the room lay his helmet and sword, and he himself was in half-mail, wearing a Milanese corselet, on which was emblazoned the red dragon of his house.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
My corselet was torn open under the iron hoofs of the horses.
From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue
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