corselette
/kɔːs(ə)ˈlɛt
/ /ˈkɔːs(ə)lɛt /(also corselet)
noun
A woman’s foundation garment combining corset and bra.They were also hybridized, with brassière tops being added to corsets to form the corselette, or attached to petticoats, and so forth....
- One of most curious abandoned items was a corselette, a woman's foundation garment, not easily removed.
- Once we reached our teens many girls wore corsets or corselets under their uniforms to keep their figure in trim.
Origin
1920s: from corselet (see corselet).
Rhymes
- lady-love
- Lady Luck
- ladyly
- Lady Macbeth
- Lady Mayor
- Lady Mayoress
- Lady Muck
- ladyness
- lady of the bedchamber
- lady of the night
- lady orchid
- lady orchis
- lady (or man or gentleman) of leisure
- lady pack
- lady palm
- lady paramount
- lady parts
- lady's bedstraw
- lady's companion
- lady's cushion
- lady's eardrop
- lady's eardrops
- lady's finger
- lady's foxglove
- Lady's hair