Associations to the word «Corselet»

Wiktionary

CORSELET, noun. Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together.
CORSELET, noun. The entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
CORSELET, noun. A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.
CORSELET, noun. A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.
CORSELET, noun. (zoology) The thorax of an insect.

Dictionary definition

CORSELET, noun. A piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope