corset

noun

/ˈkɔːsɪt/

/ˈkɔːrsɪt/

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a piece of women’s underwear, fitting the body tightly, worn especially in the past to make the middle part look smallerTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
a piece of clothing that fits the body tightly, worn to support a weak or injured back
- He has taken to jogging in a corset.

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, diminutive of cors ‘body’, from Latin corpus. The sense ‘close-fitting undergarment’ dates from the late 18th cent., by which time the sense ‘bodice’ had mainly historical reference.

单词	corset
释义	corset noun /ˈkɔːsɪt/ /ˈkɔːrsɪt/ jump to other results a piece of women’s underwear, fitting the body tightly, worn especially in the past to make the middle part look smallerTopics Clothes and Fashionc2 a piece of clothing that fits the body tightly, worn to support a weak or injured back He has taken to jogging in a corset. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, diminutive of cors ‘body’, from Latin corpus. The sense ‘close-fitting undergarment’ dates from the late 18th cent., by which time the sense ‘bodice’ had mainly historical reference.
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