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brassiere

[ UK /bɹˌɑːsiˈe‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts

How To Use brassiere In A Sentence

  • They were also hybridized, with brassière tops being added to corsets to form the corselette, or attached to petticoats, and so forth.
  • With the bumsters' new focus on butt-cleavage within the society of the naked ape, push-up brassieres will have to compete aggressively to bring attention back to the chest.
  • This was when the women's liberation movement was in full swing, and the brassiere was regarded as an offending piece of ‘body machinery’, designed by men and foisted on women.
  • Also this week, the United States said it would limit imports from China of knit fabrics, brassieres and dressing gowns because sales had been climbing in the U.S. market.
  • If 20,000 US workers involved in the production of brassieres lose their jobs to cheaper foreign producers, their loses will be outweighed by gains to 100 million American women.
  • Passing by with my daughter, we decided to buy two brassieres and a swimsuit.
  • Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer
  • The cups of some of the brassieres seemed much more pointed than anything she had seen before, and an item called a two-way stretch, which looked as though it had plastic bones in the middle, was new to her. Brooklyn
  • Enid cut apart one of the “bandeaus” then in fashion, and made a brassiere for a fuller figure. Ida Cohen Rosenthal.
  • The word brassiere first appeared in fashion bible Vogue a century ago. CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2007
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