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- noun A woman's
undergarment that is a combination of acorset and abrassiere ; acorselet
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Examples
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Her little tunics of patchwork dragon-skin gleamed against her sun-gilded limbs as if she wore a corselette of enameled metalwork.
The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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She is a domestic apocalypse in a Playtex corselette.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The dresses themselves are simply cut - strapless with a boned inner corselette, beautifully tailored by Grace-Duff (an elegant answer to the awkward built-in shelf bra).
theartblog 2009
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The room is one they talked about but never saw, a room they would have liked to live in one day, with a sunken pool, a silken tent draped from the ceiling-a De Mille set really, slender and oiled girls in attendance, a suggestion of midday light coming through from overhead, Scorpia sprawled among fat pillows wearing exactly the corselette of Belgian lace, the dark stockings and shoes he daydreamed about often enough but never -
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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