Definitions for corselets

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corselets cor·se·let

Spelling: [kawr-suh-let for 1; kawrs-lit Corselets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 438 anagrams from letters in corselets (ceelorsst).

Definitions for corselets

noun

1. Also, corselette. a woman's lightweight foundation garment combining a brassiere and girdle in one piece.
2. Also, corslet. Armor. a suit of light half armor or three-quarter armor of the 16th century or later. cuirass (def 1).

Origin of corselets

1490-1500; Middle French, equivalent to cors bodice, body + -elet -let

Examples for corselets

Sergius' head-piece was gone, but he glanced at his own corselet and then at Decius.

Ivan drew from his necktie his breast-pin, and with it closed the countess's corselet.

Their corselet, and the mail worn under it, were of a piece, and put on together.

I will do it; but will wear the corselet and buckle on my sword.

My corselet was torn open under the iron hoofs of the horses.

He was unarmed, save by a corselet richly embossed with gold.

My saddle is my throne and my helmet is my crown, my corselet is my robe of state.

Armed as he was with corselet, cuissarts, and headpiece, he sank to trouble them no more.

He is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; he talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery.

There remains only the joint between the corselet and the abdomen.