corselet

[ kawr-suh-let for 1; kawrs-lit for 2 ]
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noun
  1. Also cor·se·lette . a woman's lightweight foundation garment combining a brassiere and girdle in one piece.

  2. Also cors·let .Armor.

    • a suit of light half armor or three-quarter armor of the 16th century or later.

Origin of corselet

1
1490–1500; <Middle French, equivalent to cors “bodice, body” + -elet -let

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How to use corselet in a sentence

  • Equipped almost wholly as a soldier, he wore a jacket of iron mail and a corselet of steel.

  • Sergius' head-piece was gone, but he glanced at his own corselet and then at Decius.

    The Lion's Brood | Duffield Osborne
  • Garrard, in his Art of Warre , distinctly says, The fore part of a corselet and a head peece and tasses is the almayne rivet.

    Armour &amp; Weapons | Charles John Ffoulkes
  • Should any one entertain so petty a thought, I advise him to open the articulation of the corselet, behind the first pair of legs.

    More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre
  • A black corselet with shoulder pieces, and a feathered steel cap raised Basterga's huge stature almost to the gigantic.

    The Long Night | Stanley Weyman

British Dictionary definitions for corselet

corselet

/ (ˈkɔːslɪt) /


noun
  1. a piece of armour for the top part of the body: Also spelt: corslet

  2. a one-piece foundation garment, usually combining a brassiere and a corset

Origin of corselet

1
C15: from Old French, from cors bodice of a garment, from Latin corpus body

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