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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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Sergius' head-piece was gone, but he glanced at his own corselet and then at Decius.
Mind you, Elaine C Smith wearing a scarlet latex corselet in her role as Miss Adelaide is worthy even of the Turner Prize.
Composition varied but was around 60 percent pikemen, in burgonet, corselet and tassets, ten percent halberdiers and 30 percent shot, in morions.
Armed as he was with corselet, cuissarts, and headpiece, he sank to trouble them no more.
I lay in the arms of a man dressed in the Macedonian army corselet and tunic I knew so well.
He then removed the corselet she wore underneath, leaving her only in her shift.

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