Bodice

Quick meaning: Bodice is a noun meaning A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.

Meaning

A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.

More Meanings

1. A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.
2. The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt, sometimes specifically excluding the sleeves.
3. An underbodice: an undershirt for women.

Example Sentences

As she knelt, too, her amber locks fell in rich ringlets about her beautiful head, her innocent bosom palpitated beneath the crimson boddice, and her timid blushes increased the effulgence of her charms.

Patty said, ‘It’s almost one of those awful parts where a girl is just brought in to stand and look sexy, and not really do anything. I don’t just want to come in wearing a tight open-bodice dress and be an ornament. I’m an actress; I want lines.’

On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. She is wearing Tyrolese costume: the low-cut white bodice with cross-laced velvet waistcoat, the floral apron and dirndl skirt.

Word Forms

• bodices
• boddice

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