Corsets

Word CORSETS
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Definitions and meanings of "Corsets"

What do we mean by corsets?

A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust.

A tight-fitting gown or basque worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages.

A regulation that limited the growth of British banks' interest-bearing deposits.

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The word "corsets" in example sentences

The whole piece goes on and on and on with dates and pictures of people in corsets and lots of links to stupid things, so I just put the meat and potatoes below. ❋ Meredith Fineman (2010)

X-Men 4 — which, one can only hope, would feature the Hellfire Club (because what everyone needs is more superheroes in corsets)? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sensation of being tightly laced in well-fitting corsets is frankly superb and delightful. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What Star Wars really needs – Women in corsets (8) ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm unexpectedly going to the steampunk/burlesque/white supremacism night White Mischief this Saturday to look at girls in corsets indulge my interest in ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2008)

Instead, decadent dandy or kohl-eyed goth seems to be the order of the night, men sporting 1920s waxed moustaches or capes, the women in corsets and bowler hats or jaunty berets. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Last century most ladies and some men applied to the chest a form of apparatus known as corsets, under the mistaken belief that they were for women a necessary support and improved the figure. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

There are throughout the country numbers of large manufactories which make "corsets" -- a peculiar waist and lung compressor, used by nearly every woman in America. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

He charged his wife with various vague acts, one of which, according to the press, was that she did not wear "corsets" -- a sort of steel frame which the American women wear to compress the waist. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

It’s not quite Mary-Kate Olsen as Queen Elizabeth, but it’s still easier to picture them drinking Starbuck’s and acting sullen than prancing around in corsets and … uh … chastity belts? ❋ Unknown (2007)

And stupid BBC period dramas with men wearing tights and girls in corsets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I believe that the corsets were the cause of women fainting (is this the origin of the fainting couch?) because they Could. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I suppose," said she, "they wear them things that they call corsets, under 'em. ❋ Edward Marshall (1901)

That's what I love about research, when it can actually help with the plotting as opposed to just telling me what kind of corsets and skirts people wore in the late 19th century. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2008)

I also recall the macaroni tailor telling me that undergarments such as corsets and panniers were used to create the correct shape of the body that nature stubbornly refused to create. ❋ Heather Carroll (2008)

For example, wearing underwear such as corsets or waist-cinchers, petticoats, bloomers, or crinoline as outerwear are common Ero traits. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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