bodice
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ɪs noun
1.
a usually fitted vest or wide, lace-up girdle worn by women over a dress or blouse, especially a cross-laced, sleeveless outer garment covering the waist and bust, common in peasant dress.
2.
the part of a woman's dress covering the body between the neck or shoulders and the waist. Compare waist ( def 4 ).
3.
Obsolete. stays or a corset.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the upper part of a woman's dress, from the shoulder to the waist |
| 2. | a tight-fitting corset worn laced over a blouse, as in certain national costumes, or (formerly) as a woman's undergarment |
| [C16: originally Scottish bodies, plural of | |
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Bodice
is always a great word to know.
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Word Origin & History
bodice
1560s, pl. of body, name of a tight-fitting Elizabethan garment covering the torso; plural because the body came in two parts which fastened in the middle.
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Example sentences
What with the tourniquet of a tight bodice or the suffocating scaffolding bra beneath, all available flab is forced up.
The bodice had a yoke of lace and stock and girdle were of white silk.
Her upper lip pressed secretively against her lower one, and a red bodice peeked out from underneath a green dress.
The shirred bodice is belted with a ribbon, and has jacket fronts, which are quite novel.
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