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Definition of Corslets
1. corslet [n] - See also: corslet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corslets
Literary usage of Corslets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History. by John Lothrop Motley (1861)
"Every bullet of the Christians told on muslin turbans and embroidered tunics,
while the arrows of the Moslems fell harmless on the casques and corslets of ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... they use, u corslets, Al- maine rivets, shins of male, jacta quilted, and
covered over with leather, fustian, or canvas, over thick plates of угон that ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... slight;}- answer, /• Sa\ с me, I cry ; you sigh me out н No. Must woe and I
have nought but No and /.' which in other countries they use, as corslets, ..."
4. New Curiosities of Literature: And Book of the Months by George Soane (1849)
"... on the breast and back with the arms of the city, their bows bent in their
hands, with sheaves of arrows by their sides, pike- men in bright corslets, ..."
5. Certificate of Musters in the County of Somerset: Temp. Eliz. A. D. 1569 by Somerset (England) (1904)
"... esquire, two corslets furnished, two pair of almain One tithing corslet furnished.
rivets furnished, ..."
6. The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century by John Latimer (1900)
"The previous provision was for twenty men, but new corslets, head-pieces, muskets,
pikes and swords wore laid in for thirty additional soldiers. ..."
7. Guardian Spirits: A Case of Vision Into the Spiritual World, Tr. from the by Heinrich Werner (1847)
"... to me or rather gave me to understand, that I would have done well had I
followed the advice given to me early in the morning, and left off my corslets. ..."
8. The Cheshire Sheaf edited by Francis Sanders, William Ferguson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1896)
"... 30 corslets required for each hundred men. (p. 119 ; see further on pp.
147, 247, and 326— from which it appears that their petition had no practical ..."
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