What is "boddice"

Usage examples of "boddice".

But Bessie was a loyal lass, and even wore the red rose on her boddice notwithstanding the white rose was now in the ascendant.

I more than once entreated Bessie Kitel to give up persistently wearing a red rose worked on her boddice in the presence of such men as Sire John.

I longed, too, to look upon a modest face, instead of being stared out of countenance by some Court dame, whose character was more flimsy than her boddice, and who never spoke a kind word for an absent friend.

She still wears the red rose in her boddice on summer Sundays at church, but when she comes to see her old friends at our Manor she wears a white one too.