Definitions for bodice

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Spelling: [bod-is]
IPA: /ˈbɒd ɪs/

Bodice is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in bodice (bcdeio).

Definitions for bodice

noun

  1. a usually fitted vest or wide, lace-up girdle worn by women over a dress or blouse, especially a cross-laced, sleeveless outer garment covering the waist and bust, common in peasant dress.
  2. the part of a woman's dress covering the body between the neck or shoulders and the waist. Compare waist (def 4).
  3. Obsolete. stays or a corset.

Origin of bodice

1560-70; bodies, plural of body

Examples for bodice

Since the film is set in the 19th century, Jones was outfitted in a series of Victorian era gowns, replete with bodice and bustle.

She took out a handkerchief from inside the bodice of her dress and dried her eyes.

Next he would sniff at her waist and bodice: "Ah, that's wall-flowers!"

Nana no longer needed to stuff wads of paper into her bodice, her breasts were grown.

He assumes that the lettering which borders the bodice in this drawing—ALS.

From a recess covered by a shawl running on a string she took down her bodice.

She was quite flushed, and her bodice, generally so still and lifeless, began to heave.

Also, coins did not conveniently slide into the “vault” (Bunny-speak for bodice) the way paper money did.

Many of the looks, like a bodice worn with a figure-hugging pencil skirt, remained seductive and sexy despite its muted colors.

It was so big that it took me an hour to get into it and the only way for me to go to the bathroom was to take off the bodice.

Word Value for bodice
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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