corset

From Middle English corset, from Old French corset. Equivalent to corse +‎ -et.

An 1893 corset, front and back.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ).sɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪt

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corset (plural corsets)

1. A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust.
2. (historical) A tight-fitting gown or basque worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages.
3. (UK, finance, historical) A regulation that limited the growth of British banks' interest-bearing deposits.

• stays, see also bodice and underbodice

• corset effect
• corsetry

corset (third-person singular simple present corsets, present participle corseting or corsetting, simple past and past participle corseted or corsetted)

1. (transitive) To enclose in a corset; to wear a corset.

   Mabel dreaded the upcoming ball and the preliminary corseting it would entail.

2. (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:

     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.

• Coster, Ectors, Tresco, coster, escort, recost, rectos, scoter, scrote, sector

From Old French cors (“body”) + -et.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.sɛ/

corset m (plural corsets)

1. corset

• “corset”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French corset, from cors (“body”) + -et.

corset m (plural corsets)

1. (Jersey) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• corset d'oeuvre (“jersey”)
• t-corset (“t-shirt”)

Borrowed from French corset.

corset n (plural corsete)

1. corset