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- noun Plural form of
corselet .
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Examples
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After the 15th century onward a number of manufacturers used foam rubber as filling in their corsets and corselets.
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The Romans captured twenty-eight standards of the Persians, not counting those that had been broken, and, having despoiled the dead, took their corselets, helmets, and all their arms.
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I have heard of a legion consisting entirely of saints; and methinks it would take them all to pray and intercede for the rest of the army, and for all who wear plumes and corselets, buff coats and broadswords.
Quentin Durward 2008
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It was about midnight when Seuthes presented himself with his cavalry troopers armed with corselets, and his light infantry under arms.
Anabasis 2007
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Cyrus was with his bodyguard of cavalry about six hundred strong, all armed with corselets like Cyrus, and cuirasses and helmets; but not so Cyrus: he went into battle with head unhelmeted21.
Anabasis 2007
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One of the bold men of Dover, who would not endure to have these domineering strangers jingling their heavy swords and iron corselets up and down his house, eating his meat and drinking his strong liquor, stood in his doorway and refused admission to the first armed man who came there.
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He saw the glitter of their silver corselets, the sheen of their jeweled sword-hilts.
Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006
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I feel more certain than ever that this cairn covers a sea king -- and they were always laid to rest with all their riches: golden cups and jewel-set sword hilts and silver corselets.
Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006
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Here and there lay arrows that had shattered on the corselets of Danes, and Turlogh observed with surprize that many of them were tipped with flint.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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And there were half a dozen Schohiran renegades, sullen rogues in the woollen breeches and jerkins of farmers, with cutlasses at their belts, three forest-runners in buckskins, wild-looking men, and half a dozen Gundermen guards, compactly-built men with yellow hair cut square and confined under steel caps, corselets of chain mail, and polished leg-pieces.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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