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2. Verb. (third-person singular of corset) ¹

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Definition of Corsets

1. corset [v] - See also: corset

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corsets

Literary usage of Corsets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand Book of the United States Tariff: Containing the Tariff Act of 1913 by Vandegrift, F.B., & Co, United States (1913)
"corsets: Extensión of TD 23405 to corsets manufactured by Kops Brothers, ... corsets: Department's regulations, TD 23405, extended to cover corsets ..."

2. The Journal of Health (1830)
"corsets! corsets! WHEN we breathe we take into the chest, or inhale, and give out, or expire, a certain quantity of air, which can be measured by breathing ..."

3. Diseases of the Stomach and Upper Alimentary Tract by Anthony Bassler (1910)
"Usually, however, with most common corsets and with a tight fitting belt, ... It may be said that while the wearing of waist compressing corsets is ..."

4. Problems of Population and Parenthood: Being the 2d Report of and the Chief by James Marchant, National council of public morals (1920)
"Would you not agree that the wearing of corsets, particularly tight corsets, is a very serious contributory cause?—If a woman wears tight corsets beyond the ..."

5. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1903)
"These corsets were designated in the advertisements relating to them, upon the boxes in which they were sold, and, generally, a« " WB Erect Form corsets," ..."

6. Personal Hygiene and Physical Training for Women by Anna Mary Galbraith (1916)
"... the Curved Front Corset; the Relation of corsets to Abdominal and Pelvic Disorders; the Effects of corsets on the Muscles; the Straight Front Corset; ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"... or an albumin intoxication, with some structural alteration of the vessels in the area affected. .WB NOYES. SUSPENSION AND corsets IN CHRONIC ..."

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