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† stiffen-bodied, a. Obs.
[prob. for *stiffened-bodied, ‘having a stiffened body’; see stiffened ppl. a.]
Having the body (see body n. 6) stiffened with whalebone, etc. (said of a garment).
1706[E. Ward] Hud. Rediv. (Nares s.v. Steeple-crown), The good old dames..Were all most primitively drest In stiffen-body'd russet gowns. 1748Lady Luxborough Lett. to Shenstone (1775) 12 The stiffen-bodied gown would not add charms..to a beautiful woman. |