corset
noun/ˈkɔːsɪt/
/ˈkɔːrsɪt/
- 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
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- 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 The sense ‘close-fitting undergarment’ dates from the late 18th cent., by which time the sense ‘bodice’ had mainly historical reference.
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