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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[This is properly the plural of

body

, Oe.

bodise

a pair of bodies, equiv. to a bodice. Cf.

, and see

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman’s dress, or a portion of it.

Her

bodice

half way she unlaced.

Prior.

Noun.

Stays; a waistcoat, quilted with whalebone; worn by women.