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- adjective Without a
corset .
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Examples
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House — the corsetless young woman of the tight-fitting crash gown and flame-colored hair.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Riding corsetless was one of the female luxuries of the riding craze, and almost two years before, Addie had joined the women cyclist reformers who advocated “rational dress.”
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Riding corsetless was one of the female luxuries of the riding craze, and almost two years before, Addie had joined the women cyclist reformers who advocated “rational dress.”
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Riding corsetless was one of the female luxuries of the riding craze, and almost two years before, Addie had joined the women cyclist reformers who advocated “rational dress.”
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Georgia, almost sixteen, may or may not have known how well her tailored, midwestern, corsetless style complemented her boyish looks.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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When she went to a Thursday-night dance at the Hollywood Hotel she found herself in a ballroom full of slim, pliant, corsetless young things of eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926
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Julia, cheerfully attempting to do ten things at once, would look up to see Miss Toland, comfortably wrappered and corsetless, in the doorway.
The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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House -- the corsetless young woman of the tight-fitting crash gown and flame-colored hair.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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It was the freak lady of Mrs. Cattermole's Tea House -- the corsetless young woman of the tight-fitting crash gown and flame-colored hair.
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There was Martha, in comfortable, corsetless expansiveness -- an ideal illustration of the worthless idler fattening in purposelessness.
The Conflict 1911
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