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What is a corselet?

What is a corselet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together.
  2. The entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
  3. A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.
  4. A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.
  5. (zoology) The thorax of an insect.
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Mind you, Elaine C Smith wearing a scarlet latex corselet in her role as Miss Adelaide is worthy even of the Turner Prize.
Ivan drew from his necktie his breast-pin, and with it closed the countess's corselet.
I lay in the arms of a man dressed in the Macedonian army corselet and tunic I knew so well.
Aeneas casts a spear and it pierces his shield and corselet going into his thigh.
Armed as he was with corselet, cuissarts, and headpiece, he sank to trouble them no more.
He then removed the corselet she wore underneath, leaving her only in her shift.

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