corset

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

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

An 1893 corset, front and back.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

• stays, see also bodice and underbodice

Derived terms

• anticorset
• corseted
• corset effect
• corsetery
• corsetless
• corsetlike
• corsetmaker
• corsetmaking
• corsetry
• corsetwear
• hourglass corset
• neck corset

 

Translations

woman's garment

Arabic: كورسيه m Hijazi Arabic: كورساج m (kōrsāj), مَشَد m (mašad) Armenian: սեղմիրան (hy) (seġmiran) Bulgarian: корсе́т m (korsét) Catalan: cotilla (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 緊身褡／紧身褡 (jǐnshēndā) Cornish: korset m Czech: korzet m Danish: korset (da) n, snørliv n Dutch: korset (nl) n, keurs (nl) n Esperanto: korseto Finnish: korsetti (fi) French: corset (fr) m German: Korsett (de) n, Schnürleib m Greek: κορσές (el) m (korsés) Hebrew: מחוך (he) m (makhokh) Hungarian: fűző (hu) Icelandic: lífstykki n Ido: korseto (io) Italian: corsetto (it) m Japanese: コルセット (ja) (korusetto) Korean: 코르셋 (koreuset) Maranao: korsit Norwegian: Bokmål: korsett n Nynorsk: korsett n Persian: شکمبند (fa) (šekamband), کرست (fa) (korset) Polish: gorset (pl) m Portuguese: espartilho (pt) m, corset m Romanian: corset (ro) n Russian: корсе́т (ru) m (korsét), гра́ция (ru) f (grácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: стезник m, корзет n Roman: steznik (sh) m, korzet (sh) n Slovak: korzet m Spanish: corsé (es) m Swedish: korsett (sv) c Tagalog: kurse Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: korse (tr) Vietnamese: coóc-xê Welsh: staes f, corsed f

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• torces, c-store, sector, rectos, scoter, Tresco, recost, Cortes, Coster, Ectors, Certos, scrote, escort, coster

French

Etymology

From Old French cors (“body”) + -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.sɛ/

Noun

corset m (plural corsets)

1. corset

Descendants

descendants

• → Czech: korzet
• → Danish: korset
• → Dutch: korset
• → Esperanto: korseto
• → Finnish: korsetti
• → German: Korsett
• → Greek: κορσές (korsés)
• → Italian: corsetto
• → Japanese: コルセット (korusetto)
• → Norwegian: korsett
• → Portuguese: corset
• → Russian: корсе́т (korsét)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: корзет

  Latin script: korzet

• → Spanish: corsé
• → Swedish: korsett
• → Turkish: korse
• → Persian: کرست (korset)

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

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}}.

Derived terms

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French corset.

Noun

corset n (plural corsete)

1. corset

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	corset	corsetul		corsete	corsetele
genitive-dative	corset	corsetului		corsete	corsetelor
vocative	corsetule			corsetelor