How To Use Corselet 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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Once we reached our teens many girls wore corsets or corselets under their uniforms to keep their figure in trim.
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Besides all that we once committed ourselves by writing on the subject, we have done many other cruel things; such as dividing insects, (whether at the union of the head with corselet, or of the corselet with the abdomen,) and we have found that the segments to which the members were articulated carried on their functions _without the head_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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But first undo me these clasps — for I have not worn this corselet since the battle of Saint
Quentin Durward
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She is a domestic apocalypse in a Playtex corselette.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Once we reached our teens many girls wore corsets or corselets under their uniforms to keep their figure in trim.
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Andronikos also found a diadem, a corselet, helmet and spears, a tripod and metal bowls.
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He showed me primary-source drawings of the snake headdress, sandals, wing corselet, and transparent garment worn by Kushite royalty.
Kushite King
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He got his harness off -- unbuckled and took off the great bronze corselet, in which be lay dead in another cave.
In The Time Of Light
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Swift as thought the veteran archer raised his arblast to his shoulder, the whizzing bolt fled from the ringing string, and the next moment crashed quivering into the corselet of Plantagenet.
Burlesques
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The dresses themselves are simply cut - strapless with a boned inner corselette, beautifully tailored by Grace-Duff (an elegant answer to the awkward built-in shelf bra).
Theartblog
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The room is one they talked about but never saw, a room they would have liked to live in one day, with a sunken pool, a silken tent draped from the ceiling-a De Mille set really, slender and oiled girls in attendance, a suggestion of midday light coming through from overhead, Scorpia sprawled among fat pillows wearing exactly the corselette of Belgian lace, the dark stockings and shoes he daydreamed about often enough but never -
Gravity's Rainbow
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I lay in the arms of a man dressed in the Macedonian army corselet and tunic I knew so well.
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Mind you, Elaine C Smith wearing a scarlet latex corselet in her role as Miss Adelaide is worthy even of the Turner Prize.
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One of most curious abandoned items was a corselette, a woman's foundation garment, not easily removed.
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(_relied for himself on the help of God_), 1273. ā-lȳsan, w. v., _to loose, liberate_: pret.part. þā wæs of þǣm hrōran helm and byrne lungre ā-lȳsed (_helm and corselet were straightway loosed from him_), 1631.
Beowulf
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Other commanders wore bright cloaks or gold-inlaid corselets to insure their recognition on the battlefield.
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His upper body was encased in a corselet, and a belt about his waist held a sheathed shortsword.
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Aeneas casts a spear and it pierces his shield and corselet going into his thigh.
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I will put on my head piece and corselet one day, and you shall hew at me, allowing me my broadsword to parry and pay back?
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Placed on the bench above each retainer, his crested helmet, his linked corselet and sturdy spear shaft were plainly to be seen…
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(_relied for himself on the help of God_), 1273. â-lýsan, w. v., _to loose, liberate_: pret.part. þâ wäs of þäm hrôran helm and byrne lungre â-lýsed (_helm and corselet were straightway loosed from him_), 1631.
Beowulf
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I had to wear a corselet and these awful bloomers with lace on the bottom of them.
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He then removed the corselet she wore underneath, leaving her only in her shift.
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Seconds later it was out and only ash remained, ash staining a corselet of blackened mail.
SABRIEL
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And we burned his body on a great pyre, with Elgiva, in her golden corselet, beside him singing.
Chapter 17
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Her little tunics of patchwork dragon-skin gleamed against her sun-gilded limbs as if she wore a corselette of enameled metalwork.
The Elvenbane
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She picked up his corselet and buckled it on him, making him hold up his arms and kneel while she slipped it over his head.
In The Time Of Light
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Ay, and then, Peter, this very night my courage seduced me, moreover, into too strait a corselet, which would have been the death of me, but for the aid of this gallant young gentleman, whose trade is fighting, whereof I wish him heartily joy.
Quentin Durward
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The big wrinkle on the hip is done by the piece that holds the socks up, not the corselet.
E!: Baroquey Dokey
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Composition varied but was around 60 percent pikemen, in burgonet, corselet and tassets, ten percent halberdiers and 30 percent shot, in morions.
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I feel more certain than ever that this cairn covers a sea king -- and they were always laid to rest with all their riches: golden cups and jewel-set sword hilts and silver corselets.
Wings in the Night
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Follow the lead of of corselet style dress the skirt of 19 centuries fits a style, those who emphasize bosom and hip is curvaceous , protruding shows elegant color of the female.
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The strapless corselet sheath gown with my signature décolletéstyling, made of my own Mountain Laurel white silk overlaid with handmade Breton lace that's almost as fine as what Great Aunt Edna used to make?
Miss Edna's Lace
