Corset

Definition: Corset

Corset

Noun

1. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.

Verb

1. Dress with a corset.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "corset" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Industry

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Corset

Clothing

Underclothes, underpants, undershirt; slip, brassiere, corset, stays, corsage, corset, corselet, bodice, girdle; (circle); stomacher; petticoat, panties; under waistcoat; jock, athletic supporter, jockstrap.

Crosswords: Corset

French (corset, girdle, stays), Romanian (corset, foundation garment, girdle, stay, stays).

Try wearing a corset. (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; writing credit: Ted Elliott; Terry Rossio)

And Benny Goodman's corset and pen (If It Makes You Happy; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

The Corset Model (1899)

Her First Corset (1897)

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Books

• Au corset qui tue : roman (reference)

• Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body Sculpture in the West (reference)

• Fetish Fashion: Undressing the Corset (reference)

• Freaks of Fashion: The Corset & the Crinoline (reference)

• Les ouvrières de Dominion Corset à Québec, 1886-1988 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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McCurdy's Improved Skirt Supporting Corset and Shoulder Brace. / Holton Eng. N.Y. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Bernard Shultz Department Store, business at Third and Main St., Evansville, Indiana. Corset department. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lord & Taylor, business in Westchester. Corset department. Credit: Library of Congress.

Leader's, business in Lima, Ohio. Corset department. Credit: Library of Congress.

Halle Bros., Westgate. Corset. Credit: Library of Congress.

Martin's, Babylon, Long Island. Corset department. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And then, to harness himself like a bully, and to strap himself up like a flirt, to wear a corset under a cuirass, is to be ridiculous twice over.

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "corset": anti-corset.

Albanian

korse (corselet, girdle, pantie, pantie-girdle, waist). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشد للخصر للنساء, ‏مشد (stays), ‏درع (aegis, armature, armor, armor plate, armored, armour, armour plate, armoured, cuirass, hauberk, mail, shield). (various references)

Bulgarian 

корсет (busk, stays). (various references)

Czech

korzet. (various references)

Danish

udlånsstyring (credit control, credit framework, money(credit)management), kreditkontrol (credit control, credit framework, money(credit)management), kreditbegrænsning (credit control, credit framework, money(credit)management), korset. (various references)

Dutch

orthopedisch corset, kredietbeheersing (credit control, credit framework, money(credit)management), korset. (various references)

Farsi 

کرست (Girdle), شکم بندزنانه , شکم بندبستن . (various references)

Finnish

liivit (bodice, girdle, suspender belt, under-bodice, vest, waistcoat), liivi (bodice, girdle, suspender belt, under-bodice, vest, waistcoat), kureliivi (stays). (various references)

French

corset (collar). (various references)

German

Korsett. (various references)

Greek 

κορσέσ (girdle, stays), κορσές, έλεγχος της πίστης (credit control, credit framework, money(credit)management), στηθόδεσμοσ (corselet, stays), πιστωτικός έλεγχος (credit control, credit framework, money(credit)management), περιστήθιο (bodice, bra). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחוך (bodice, stays). (various references)

Hungarian

nõi fûzõ, befûz (lace, lace up, thread). (various references)

Indonesian

korset (girdle). (various references)

Italian

busto (body, bust, girdle, half length portrait, torso, trunk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

コルク抜き (bodice of a woman's dress, colchicine, Colt, corkscrew, cornet, correspondent, corsage, cortisone, kolkhoz, Kolmogorov, small bouquet worn by a woman). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コルセット . (various references)

Manx

staiyaghyn, corsaid. (various references)

Pig Latin

orsetcay

Portuguese

espartilho (stays, waist). (various references)

Romanian

corset (foundation garment, girdle, stay, stays). (various references)

Russian 

корсет (corselet, corslet, foundation garment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

steznik, mider, korset. (various references)

Spanish

corsé (stays). (various references)

Swedish

korsett (stays). (various references)

Turkish

korse (bodice, foundation, girdle, stays, supporter). (various references)

Ukrainian

корсет (belt, busk, corslet). (various references)

Vietnamese 

coocxê (slip). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "corset": corseted, corsetiere, corsetieres, corseting, corsetries, corsetry, corsets. (additional references)

Words containing "corset": uncorseted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Corset" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carseat, cisret, ckrest, cobseo, Cordet, coret, corkster, Cormet, corret, corsa, corsas, corsat, corse, corsed, Corser, corses, corsett, corsette, corsit, corslet, Corzo, coset, cosit, Coslet, coursset, Crosen, Korosec, orste, worset. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coster, escort, rectos, scoter, sector.

-1 letter: ceros, cores, corse, coset, cotes, crest, escot, recto, roset, rotes, score, store, torcs, tores, torse.

-2 letters: cero, core, cors, cost, cote, cots, eros, erst, orcs, ores, orts, recs, rest, rets, rocs, roes, rose, rote, rots, scot, sect, sore, sort, toes, torc, tore, tors.

-3 letters: cor, cos, cot, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ort.

+1 letter: coaster, coaters, colters, cooters, copters, cornets, corsets, corslet, corvets, costers, costrel, cotters, couters, coverts, erotics, escorts, hectors, lectors, prosect, rectors, restock, rochets, rockets, rotches, scooter, scoters, scouter, sectors, stocker, tochers, torches, troches, vectors.

+2 letters: ancestor, bisector, botchers, brockets, cabestro, cabresto, cheroots, chortles, citreous, cloister, clotures, clouters, coarsest, coasters, coerects, coexerts, coffrets, cointers, coistrel, concerts, construe, converts, cordites, corkiest, corniest, coronets, corrects, corselet, corseted, corsetry, corslets, corteges, cortexes, cortices, costlier, costrels, costumer, coteries, cottiers, coulters, counters, courters, courtesy, coutures, coveters, cowrites, creators, creosote, crochets, crockets, crofters, croquets, crossest, crosslet, crosstie, crotches, crownets, crowstep, crustose, customer, cutovers, ectosarc, eductors, ejectors, electors, electros, enactors, erectors, escargot, escorted, esoteric, evictors, exactors, excitors, exorcist, forecast, fructose, locaters, mortices, notchers, noticers, outcries, outcurse, outraces, outscore, overacts, overcast, overcuts, postrace, projects, prosects, prospect, protects, reactors, recounts, redcoats, restocks, rockiest, scooters, scouters, scouther, secretor, sectoral, sectored, selector, sprocket, stockers, stockier, stuccoer, thoraces, touchers, trochees, trounces, vortices.