What is "bodice"

Usage examples of "bodice".

Felicia took note of the fashionably low neckline, and her hand crept up to ringer the delicate aerophane crepe that fashioned the upper portion of her bodice, then formed a ruff at her neck.

There was a murmur from inside the room, and presently a woman of medium height wearing a grey alpaca dress, the bodice of which seemed moulded to her thin body, stood confronting the footman, who had now taken a step back into the corridor.

Jessica felt the cold sheath of the crysknife beneath her bodice, thought of the long chain of Bene Gesserit scheming that had forged another link here.

The swell of her breasts above the square cut bodice made him wish Bevel gone so he could explore and taste her lushness.

A garnet brooch deftly unclipped from the bombasine blouse worn by a nanny earned a gaol term or transportion no different to the neatest unclipping of a diamond pin from the silk bodice of a duchess.

Their dresses fitted their figures, and were trimmed with fur and stiffened with whalebones, so they went into the next room, and came back in white bodices and short dimity petticoats, laughing at the slightness of their attire.

Her new costume now consisted of three pieces, a chaddar a yard and a half long, one end of which was tucked into her skirt and the other draped over her head, a tiny sleeveless bodice, and a skirt a few inches long.

The chemise was pink, the petticoat coquelicot scarlet, the bodice green and yellow stripes.

The sunlight dappling through the lattice warmed the cupric tones of her hair and reflected from the bodice of her white dress to radiate her face in a diffuse glow.

She wore a fancified Lapp dress with a bead embroidered bodice and a dark blue full skirt.

In her bodice at dinner, and to the concert after, Gyp wore one La France and one Gloire de Dijon--a daring mixture of pink and orange against her oyster-coloured frock, which delighted her, who had a passion for experiments in colour.

This made them gayer than ever, for they had not noticed that their unlaced bodices and short petticoats let me see almost everything.

I claimed the right of regaining it myself, and she had to unlace her bodice to let me do so.

Her perfume rose in his nostrils and to his shame he found himself staring at her dark, hennaed nipples beneath the fine lawn of her bodice.

She was dressed in a gown that had a powder-blue bodice of jaconet and a skirt of white muslin over a blue silk slip.