corset

[ US /ˈkɔɹsət/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːsɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
VERB
  1. dress with a corset
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How To Use corset In A Sentence

  • At the bottom of the trunk she found a set of white undergarments including lacy petticoats and a full corseted bodice.
  • The undergarments included stockings, petticoats, drawers, and a corset.
  • They were also hybridized, with brassière tops being added to corsets to form the corselette, or attached to petticoats, and so forth.
  • They built a corset for me and added crinoline and flounces, and no one was the wiser - until the footbridge scene, the only love scene in the film.
  • He used the corset look to great effect, particularly when he paired a white crocodile bustier with a black silk chiffon petal skirt and a rose silk faille bustier with a black silk chiffon lace inset skirt.
  • By the end of the century corsets produced the sinuous body shape of the Gibson girl, with a protruding bust and derrière, and small waist.
  • Anyone who tells students that there is only one way is putting them ‘into emotional corsets' and preventing them from fulfilling themselves.
  • However much the glamorous image of the corseted and gartered, smoky-voiced chanteuse remains, he says they never bought into that aspect of the culture.
  • Then the talk stopped dead as Istra Nash stood agaze in the doorway — pale and intolerant, her red hair twisted high on her head, tall and slim and uncorseted in a gray tight-fitting gown. Our Mr. Wrenn
  • Once we reached our teens many girls wore corsets or corselets under their uniforms to keep their figure in trim.
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