How To Use Brassiere In A Sentence
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They were also hybridized, with brassière tops being added to corsets to form the corselette, or attached to petticoats, and so forth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Passing by with my daughter, we decided to buy two brassieres and a swimsuit.
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Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer
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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
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Enid cut apart one of the “bandeaus” then in fashion, and made a brassiere for a fuller figure.
Ida Cohen Rosenthal.
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The word brassiere first appeared in fashion bible Vogue a century ago.
CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2007
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Western women, fully accoutered with nail polish (which is incompatible with manual work), high-heeled shoes (disastrous for the posture and hence the back, and quite unsuitable for walking long distances over bad roads) and brassieres... denounce female circumcision without the shadow of a suspicion that their behavior is absurd.
Nomad
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She is beyond beautiful barefoot in a white gown that discloses the lace of a cerise brassiere.
S.X. Rosenstock: Sade at Honda Center: Style as Enlightenment
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Across from these tiny slippers is a case that displays the evolution of the corsets and brassieres that have twisted and shaped the female figure to reflect the ever-changing ideal of what women should look like in Western culture.
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This may have something to do with brassiere technology, or the design of sweaters, or possibly the footage was shot by Australian news cameramen with a specific interest in that area - what you might call the larrikin school of film-making.
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That's right, a brassiere to conceal a hidden handgun.
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A rummage through the Rigby & Peller archive, which is stored in silk-lined suitcases in an office above its Conduit Street store in Mayfair, shows that a lot has changed since Vogue coined the term "brassiere" in 1907.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all
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I mean, I don't think of shirts when I'm forced to stare at adverts of those newfangled strapless anti-gravity brassieres that hang on to what they are supposed to through pure force of will.
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Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
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The Miller system also included a bosom support for stout women; it could be classed as the first brassiere.
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Moving quickly, she unhooked her brassiere, let it slide forward off her arms.
FAMILY PICTURES
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Like all the best questions .... bra is short for brassiere, which a single item, als the word is French, and they are a singular people. bra is short for brassiere which is a word for a single object, whereas any item of clothing that covers both legs separately is referred to in plural as it comprises two leg coverings put together.
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A stout woman clad in sequined pink muslin trousers and brassiere was standing on a platform revolving her stomach in time to the music of a piano and violin, and as we entered she changed her subject matter and began to revolve her large firm breasts in opposite directions.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
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As for the women, they all had hair piled high on their head like a bouffant crown or frame and bodies bound under fishnet unitards and undersized brassieres.
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I think that it is funny that the bra-burners forgot that originally the brassiere was a liberation for women, a step up from the corset when the country needed extra metal for the war.
Inflammatory!
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This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere, but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.
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With an abstracted look, she removed her sweater and brassiere.
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Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
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He looked up in time to see Greta open her blouse and tuck the vial into the cup of her brassiere.
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Across from these tiny slippers is a case that displays the evolution of the corsets and brassieres that have twisted and shaped the female figure to reflect the ever-changing ideal of what women should look like in Western culture.
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This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere, but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.
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He said her brassiere was showing and he took off his shirt and put it on her.
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As for the women, they all had hair piled high on their head like a bouffant crown or frame and bodies bound under fishnet unitards and undersized brassieres.
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Linda totes her basket on one arm, the mobile phone cradled against her ear, whilst the other hand scratches beneath the underwire of her brassiere.
Bingo Night
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This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere, but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.
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With each step, she was naughtily aware of her new Aubade lace brassiere and matching tanga with its corseted waist.
One Flight Up
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All thoroughly tested by founder and fellow A-cupper Kristen Jilek, the goods featured - from brassieres of all kinds to camis and swimwear - fit A, AA, and even AAA women.
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The word brassiere comes from the Old French braciere, which was a piece worn on the arm as protection.
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I had once looked up the word brassiere in the dictionary, and I had been aroused: “A woman’s undergarment worn to support the breasts.”
THE EXTRA MAN
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Belly dancers wear a tight garment similar to a brassiere, and wide, flowing trousers gathered at the ankle.
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From September 2002 to September of this year, Chinese imports of cotton brassieres shot up 53 percent.
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His masculine hands looked clumsy as they lifted out the costume slip and miniature "dancing set" -- brassiere and step-ins -- all matching, of filmiest white chiffon and lace.
Murder at Bridge
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And there emerged from the inner room a trim, lithe, almost boyishly slim figure attired in a bewitchingly skittish-looking garment consisting of knickerbockers and snug brassiere of king's blue satin messaline.
Roast Beef, Medium
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One long-gone department store in Seoul used to have a male clerk selling brassieres.
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I stacked my brassieres in two stacks (sports bras & others) to the left of the top cube.
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Just the word brassiere, or its shortened form, bra, was enough to stimulate me, and to say to myself “Mary’s bra” was deadly.
THE EXTRA MAN
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Passing by with my daughter, we decided to buy two brassieres and a swimsuit.
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Women bunged their brassieres on the brazier as a symbolic gesture - they weren't going to be reined in anymore by men or by a bit of frilly elastic.
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She was perhaps the first woman to make a fashion statement by wearing a brassiere outside her normal clothing.
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Tourists shamed them with their stares and cameras, and all too soon they had to ask friends to bring brassieres from shops in Jakarta.
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Likewise, halter-necked tops require halter-necked brassieres (or strapless, depending on how low the front and back sit).
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The conversation went from fish, to puppies, to brassières, to mistress.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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The weekly's West Coast style editor, Steven Cojocaru, said the problem with her bustline was that it seemed to sag from lack of a proper brassiere.
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Even before the corset or the brassiere, in the Middle Ages pouches sewn in to dresses could give uplift.
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In the ‘Pelt’ paintings, Finley airily outlined bodices, thongs, brassieres, garter belts and fasteners.
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A well-endowed model in an advertisement was used to sell virtually everything: movies, cars, fruit, coffee, brassieres and postcards.
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She wore loose black pyjamas, moccasins and a black brassiere.
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We walked around the store, trailed by a bewildered saleslady, until Dr. Salama stopped in front of a mulberry-pink satin brassiere.
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