corselet🔊

Armor for the body, for example a breastplate and backpiece taken together.

An entire suit of armor, made up chiefly of the breastplate and backpiece worn with a headpiece and with a gorget, pauldrons, vambraces, gauntlets, and tassets attached.

A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.

A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.

(zoology) The thorax of an insect.