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Definition of Corselet
1. Noun. A piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece.
Generic synonyms: Body Armor, Body Armour, Cataphract, Coat Of Mail, Suit Of Armor, Suit Of Armour
Definition of Corselet
1. n. Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
Definition of Corselet
1. Noun. Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together. ¹
2. Noun. Also used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece. ¹
3. Noun. A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette ¹
4. Noun. (zoology) The thorax of an insect. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corselet
1. a piece of body armor [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corselet
Literary usage of Corselet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"As the corselet off he took, The dwarf espied the Mighty Book 1 Much he marvelled
a knight of pride Like a book-bosomed priest should ride: 90 He thought ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Soon as the corselet and the shield were bound On back and side, he clasped
Ascanius To his mailed breast, and through his helmet grim Tenderly kissed his ..."
3. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"corselet (of a bee, of a butterfly, of a lobster). (T. militaire), corselet,
light cuirass. CORSET, sm Mettre un corset, to put on stays, bod- dice. ..."
4. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"An English corselet which he had put on for better protection against the weapons
of the Mohegans so impeded his flight that the two Mohegans at his heels ..."
5. The Geography of Herodotus ...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"This corselet was made of linen, inwrought with many figures of animals, and
adorned with gold and cotton wool; and each thread, though fine, consisted of ..."
6. Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical Comments on the by Pierre-Henri Larcher (1844)
"You could ' no more destroy it (the nest of the halcyon) with iron, than the
vaunted corselet which Amasis consecrated to Lindian Minerva. ..."
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