Crossword clues for corselet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corselet \Corse"let\ (k?rs"l?t), n. [F., dim. of OF. cors. F. corps, body. See Corse.]
Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
(Zo["o]l.) The thorax of an insect.
Wiktionary
n. 1 armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together. 2 The entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece. 3 A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs. 4 A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette. 5 (context zoology English) The thorax of an insect.
WordNet
n. a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece [syn: corslet]
Wikipedia
A corselet, or corselette, is a type of foundation garment, sharing elements of both bras and girdles. It may incorporate lace in front or in back. The term originated by the addition of the diminutive suffix " -ette" to the word corset.
Usage examples of "corselet".
Splendid in their silk khalats and golden corselets, the Grandees of Gedea and Shigek yet again assailed the iron men.
It entered just below the right shoulder, and was sent with such vigor, that, passing between the ribs, it stopped not until arrested on the other side by the steel corselet which Spikeman wore on his breast.
The corselet had been removed, and a portion of the clothing cut away, and Spikeman lay on his side, spasmodically breathing.
A wide band of the same hide, this time descaled and softened, made a corselet, covering his body from arm pit to crotch, and over that was the second belt of a warrior from which was suspended the twenty-inch knife of an accepted clansman.
It wasn't difficult to guess what they were working at, the working platform was liberally stacked with the tools of their trade: an oil engine-driven air compressor with a steel reservoir with outlet valves, a manually-operated, two-cylinder double-acting air pump with two outlets, two helmets with attached corselets, flexible, non-collapsible air tubes with metal couplings, weighted boots, diving dresses, life-cum-telephone lines, lead weights and scuba equipment such as I had myself, with a stack of com.
I stood up, wriggling slightly so as to get maximum jingle from my chain-mail corselet and divided skirt.
They wore loin cloths of brightly dyed fabrics with wide sashes forming corselets about their slender middles, from which gleamed the gem-set hilts of their claw knives, the possession of which proved their adulthood.
It wasn't difficult to guess what they were working at, the working platform was liberally stacked with the tools of their trade: an oil engine driven air compressor with a stored reservoir with outlet valves, a manually-operated, two-cylinder double-acting air pump with two outlets, two helmets with attached corselets, flexible, non-collapsible air tubes with metal couplings, weighted boots, diving dresses, life-cum-telephone lines, lead weights and scuba equipment such as I had myself, with a stack of compressed air cylinders at the ready.
A wedge of soldiers in iron-plated leather corselets and wearing blue sashes marched along the muddy road toward the White forces.
Over the corselet, half-concealing it, is a wire structure covered with a shimmering pink quilty material.
In less than a minute the pirate captain and his companions were immersed, the water thrusting strongly against their rubbered canvas suits and at the same time relieving the wearers of the hitherto handicapping weight of their leaden-soled boots and of the lumps of metal suspended from their corselets.
I did not recognize the corselet and helm with its crisp scarlet plume, the full-length shield painted with a bird of prey clutching a leafy branch in its talons, black on red.