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Definition: Corselet |
CorseletNoun1. A piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corselet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonym: CorseletSynonym: corslet (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Underclothes, underpants, undershirt; slip, brassiere, corset, stays, corsage, corset, corselet, bodice, girdle; (circle); stomacher; petticoat, panties; under waistcoat; jock, athletic supporter, jockstrap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corselet |
| Etymologies containing "corselet": lorica. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Corselet" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (bodice). |
| "Corselet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corselet" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
corselet | 39 |
corselet open | 2 |
corselet corset steel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "corselet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | korse (corset, girdle, pantie, pantie-girdle, waist), gjoksore (cuirass, gorget, ring-mail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | комбиниран корсет и сутиен, броня (aegis, armature, armor plate, armour, armour plate, bumper, cuirass, dashboard, fender, mail, plate armor, plate armour, ring-mail, shell, splash-board, test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 紧身女内衣. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | šnìrovaèka (corslet, stays). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στηθόδεσμοσ (corset, stays), μικρόσ στηθόδεσμοσ, μικρόσ θώρακασ, θώρακασ (breastplate, chest, cuirass, mail, thorax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | páncéling (coat of mail, corslet, hauberk, mail, shirt of mail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ゲリラ兵 (calking, caulking, caution, coach, coach's box, coaster, coat, coating, coda, coding, coding system, cogeneration, cogeneration system, Coke, Coke highball, coordinate, coordination, coordinator, corduroy, corkscrew, cortisone, course, course of study, course record, courseware, gel, gene, Gentzen, germane, germanium, guerrilla, lane marks, money, money pinch, ski slope, tennis court). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コースレット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orseletcay corselete (corslet), corpinho (corslet), corpete (bodice, camise, corsage, corslet, waist). (various references) корсет (corset, corslet, foundation garment), латы. (various references) corselete (corslet). (various references) korselett, bröstharnesk (breastplate, corslet). (various references) zırh (armature, Armor, armour, breastplate, coat of mail, cuirass, edging, harness, mail, sheathing, sheeting, shield), sıkı giysi, korse-sütyen bileşimi çamaşır. (various references) грація (grace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | thorax. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corselet": corselets, corselette, corselettes. (additional references) | |
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"Corselet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corselette, Corsellis, corslet, Coseley, Coslet, Courseulles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "corselet" (pronounced 'Corse"let'): Armlet, Ballet, Batlet, Beamlet, Bendlet, Birdlet, Bloodlet, Booklet, Bracelet, Bractlet, Branchlet, Brooklet, Budlet, Bullet, Camlet, Cantlet, Chainlet, Chamlet, Cloudlet, Corslet, Couplet, Croslet, Cross-crosslet, Crownlet, Cutlet, Finlet, Flamelet, Fortlet, Frislet, Frondlet, frontlet, Giblet, Goblet, gullet, Hamlet, Haslet, Inlet, islet, kinglet, leaflet, Liplet, Lobelet, mallet, Martlet, millet, Mountlet, Murrelet, necklet, Notelet, Nutlet. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: electors, electros, selector. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: colters, corslet, costrel, creoles, elector, electro, lectors, soleret, tercels. | |
-2 letters: ceorls, certes, closer, closet, colter, corset, coster, creels, creole, cresol, elects, erects, escort, lector, ostler, rectos, relets, resect, resole, scoter, secret, sector, select, stereo, sterol, streel, tercel, terces. | |
-3 letters: celts, ceorl, ceres, ceros, cetes, close, clots, coles, colts, cores, corse, coset, cotes, creel. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: corelates, corselets, coverlets, electrons, reclothes, relocates, selectors. | |
+2 letters: bracteoles, centrioles, cerecloths, clerestory, cloistered, correlates, corselette, cotterless, deflectors, electrodes, florescent, forecastle, latecomers, percolates, recollects, reflectors, relocatees, telecourse, tolerances, tracheoles. | |
+3 letters: aeroelastic, brocatelles, ceilometers, celebrators, centerfolds, cholesteric, cholesterol, clinometers, corselettes, coulometers, cyclometers, edulcorates, elastomeric, electorates, electrojets, electroless, electronics, enterocoels, fluorescent, forecastles, hectoliters, helicopters, isoelectric, prelections, projectiles, reallocates, reelections, reflections, sclerometer, sclerotized, telecourses, tricolettes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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