corselet

«corselet» in Mova's school dictionary: A corselet was a piece of armour that covered the body… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a corselet, corselets)

meaning for a pupil

1) (old) A corselet was a piece of armour that covered the body, chest and back. tree →

2) A corselet is a tight piece of women's underwear that covers the body (also corselette). tree →

3) (science) The corselet is the hard chest part (thorax) of an insect. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and stories about knights and soldiers, a corselet of steel or leather protects the chest. In The Wind in the Willows the animals arm themselves with swords and pistols for the battle of Toad Hall. Today the word is rare.

examples

• The soldier wore a corselet of steel. tree →
• The knight buckled on his corselet. tree →
• A leather corselet protected his chest. tree →
• The beetle's shiny corselet gleamed. tree →
• The museum has a corselet from the Civil War. tree →
• He took off his corselet after the battle. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced KORSS-lit. Also spelt «corslet».

In the corpora

• the headtires, and the armlets, and the sashes, and the corselets, and the amulets;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «corselet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.