OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28020

bodice

/ˈbɒdɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corpiño
A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.
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 ef…
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 whit…
jubón
An underbodice: an undershirt for women.
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