corset
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English corset, from Old French corset. Equivalent to corse + -et.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corset (plural corsets)
- A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust.
- (historical) A tight-fitting gown or basque worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages.
- (UK, finance, historical) A regulation that limited the growth of British banks' interest-bearing deposits.
Synonyms
[edit]- stays, see also bodice and underbodice
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]woman's garment
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Verb
[edit]corset (third-person singular simple present corsets, present participle corseting or corsetting, simple past and past participle corseted or corsetted)
- (transitive) To enclose in a corset; to wear a corset.
- Mabel dreaded the upcoming ball and the preliminary corseting it would entail.
- (figuratively) To restrict or confine.
- I will not remain corseted by your notions of what is and is not proper!
- 2004 July 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany”, in Workers World[1]:
- They were trying to free the lives of women of all sexualities and genders that were tightly corseted by lack of basic social and economic rights.
Anagrams
[edit]- torces, c-store, sector, rectos, scoter, Tresco, recost, Cortes, Coster, Ectors, Certos, scrote, escort, coster
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French cors (“body”) + -et.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corset m (plural corsets)
Descendants
[edit]descendants
- → Czech: korzet
- → Danish: korset
- → Dutch: korset
- → Esperanto: korseto
- → Finnish: korsetti
- → German: Korsett
- → Greek: κορσές (korsés)
- → Italian: corsetto
- → Japanese: コルセット (korusetto)
- → Norwegian: korsett
- → Portuguese: corset
- → Russian: корсе́т (korsét)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: corsé
- → Swedish: korsett
- → Turkish: korse
- → Persian: کرست (korset)
Further reading
[edit]- “corset”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French corset, from cors (“body”) + -et.
Noun
[edit]corset m (plural corsets)
- (Jersey) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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Derived terms
[edit]- corset d'oeuvre (“jersey”)
- t-corset (“t-shirt”)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]corset n (plural corsete)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | corset | corsetul | corsete | corsetele | |
genitive-dative | corset | corsetului | corsete | corsetelor | |
vocative | corsetule | corsetelor |
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