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
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 Esther Singleton
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 G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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 Padraic Colum
