Definitions for bodices

bodices bod·ice

Spelling: [bod-is]
IPA: /ˈbɒd ɪs/

Bodices is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in bodices (bcdeios).

Definitions for bodices

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 bodices

1560-70; bodies, plural of body

Examples for bodices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Word Value for bodices
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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