corsetery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Corsets and their accoutrements; items made by a maker of corsets, taken collectively.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Company also agrees to give the corsetiere the benefit of it's own sales plans and training of salesmanship and corsetery. At the same time, the corsetiere agrees to purchase a demonstration line, which she uses in her own work ..."
- "The innovation of the moment in corsetery is BIENJOLIE GRECIAN-TRECO REDELACD Corsets The all year round corset for the girls and women who lead active lives, and insist on ease, comfort and cleanliness as well as ..."
- "Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry."
- "Women of wealthy mercantile families asserted their status by imitating the styles from royal courts and helped spread the fashion of corsetry throughout cities and towns all across Europe. In subsequent centuries, the corset was modified ..."
- "The modern bra, as a concept, has its origins in corsetry (so does shapewear, which you'll learn more about in chapter 3)."
- "I have been made painfuly aware of the angles of a slender figure left without the help of that wisp of corsetry that would make all the difference in the world. I have walked behind a lady with fleshy shoulders, even as you have done , and ..."
Etymology
From corset + -ery.