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How to pronounce corset in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms girdle, stays
Type of foundation, foundation garment
Has types panty girdle
Type Words
Type of apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog

Examples of corset

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No lawyer, the British-born Paine started his career as a maker of corset stays.
From the washingtontimes.com
The tight-fitting top has thin red straps and red piping for a corset-style look.
From the stltoday.com
I bet the fabled Princess herself was none too happy with her whalebone corset.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Not like what most men and women think, corset busks aren't corsets whatsoever.
From the yallsjoynt.com
The boneless corset is a much more modern take on the less forgiving bone-corset.
From the timesunion.com
The same goes for the female corset, I suppose, though I never wore one myself.
From the guardian.co.uk
She's flaunting a black pleather corset-type getup by the end of the performance.
From the orlandosentinel.com
To attract attention, they burned a corset in front of Mina's statue in Amsterdam.
From the time.com
Jennifer Love Hewitt looked too overdone in her gold, corset-style Georges Chakra.
From the philly.com
More examples
  • A woman's close-fitting foundation garment
  • Dress with a corset
  • A corset is a garment worn to mold and shape the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it, or with a more lasting effect). Both men and women are known to wear corsets, though women are more common wearers.
  • A corset is a garment that girds the torso and shapes it according to the fashionable silhouette of the day. Most often it has been used for cinching the waist and supporting the breasts.
  • A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust; To enclose in a corset; to wear a corset; To restrict or confine
  • (Corsets) Form fitting foundation intended to shape the mid-section and waist inward using boning. Can be worn as an undergarment such as a bridal corset or as outerwear similar to a camisole.
  • (Corsets) Tight-fitting, body-enhancing undergarments used to be worn by women to create an hourglass-shaped silhouette. A traditional corset features boning and either a lace-up or a hook-and-eye closure, with a bust-to-hip length. ...
  • (corsets) (n): a corset is a ladies undergarment designed to produce a particular effect on the figure. That effect usually results in a slim (or slimmer) waist and larger busts and hips, like the woman in this picture.
  • A waist-cinching garment that imposes its shape on the figure. Modern corsets use steel boning to compress the waist and lift the bust. They were originally constructed using whalebones.