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noun

Corset n.

In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.

An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.

verb

Corset v. t. (past & past part. corseted; pres. part. corseting) To inclose in corsets.

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Etymology of 'Corset'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Corset" Quotes from Famous Books

... arrival in France his comrade called him only Mademoiselle Fifi. This nickname was bestowed upon him on account of his coquettish style of dressing and manners, his slender waist, which looked as if it were laced in a corset, his pale face on which a nascent mustache could hardly be seen, and also on account of the habit he had acquired, in order to express his supreme contempt for persons and things, of using continually the French locution: "Fi! fi donc!" which he ...

— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant

... invariably wore a corset-cover of yellow flannel, the Baroness a wrapper mottled with stains from cosmetics and the Biscayan lady a red waist through whose opening was regularly presented, for the admiration of those who happened along the corridor, a huge white udder ...

— The Quest • Pio Baroja

... sitting writing only half dressed, folded the paper reverently, put it to her lips for lack of a seal, and then buttoned it firmly inside her corset waist. ...

— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson

... better, and when she has to confess that she has never done anything outside of her own house, and nothing there except agreeable things, such as entertaining friends who next week will entertain her, and embroidering 'insets' for corset-covers for dainty ladies who already have corset-covers enough to fill a store-window,—I wonder if she will be able to put it over on the heavenly doorkeeper that 'the Doctor would not let her.' If all I hear is true, Saint Peter will say, 'Who ...

— The Next of Kin - Those who Wait and Wonder • Nellie L. McClung

... entirely rid herself of the notion that she was dreaming. A lace petticoat hanging over the back of a chair and a brocaded pink corset over another contributed to the illusion. She could not yet believe they were hers, any more than was the twenty-dollar creation in the hat box on the shelf in ...

— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart

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