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Definition of Stomacher
1. Noun. Garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century.
Definition of Stomacher
1. n. One who stomachs.
Definition of Stomacher
1. Noun. (obsolete) A type of men's waistcoat. (defdate 15th-18th c.) ¹
2. Noun. (context: now chiefly historical) An ornamental cloth, often embellished with embroidery or jewelry, worn by women under the lacing of a bodice. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
3. Noun. A brooch, often in three parts, worn over the stomach or chest in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stomacher
1. the center front section of a waist or underwaist [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stomacher
Literary usage of Stomacher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of by James Robinson Planché (1876)
"stomacher. The stomacher is first mentioned towards the end of the fifteenth
century, at which time it was worn by both sexes. ..."
2. Who's it in America: Being a Sort O'biography of Certain Prominent Persons by Charles Eustace Merriman (1906)
"... and invented an arrangement for the lighting of the Metropolitan by means of
Mrs. Astor's stomacher. Imported " Parsifal," a celebrated German dachshund ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"10 A roif and band of Scots cloth plain with a border, ... 09 A shift, .....
16 A pair of leather bodice and stomacher 2 6 1 Pair of woollen stockings, . ..."
4. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"She is a nonconformist in a close stomacher and ruff of Geneva print, and her
purity consists much in her linen." Such stomachers may be seen in vol. i., ..."
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