corset

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A close-fitting undergarment, often reinforced by stays, worn to support and shape the waistline, hips, and breasts.
2. n. A medieval outer garment, especially a laced jacket or bodice.
3. v. To enclose in or as if in a corset.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In the middle ages, a close-fitting body-garment. The term seems to have been always applied to a garment having skirts and sleeves, but may have been used for the upper part, or what might be called the bodice of such garments. In this sense also corse.
2. n. A similar garment stuffed and quilted to form a garment of fence; a piece of armor, similar to the gambeson, worn by crossbowmen and foot-soldiers about 1475.
3. n. A shaped, close-fitting body or waist, usually made of quilted satin jean, stiffened by strips of steel or whalebone, and so designed as to admit of tightening by lacing, worn chiefly by women to give shape and support to the figure; stays. Often in plural, corsets.
4. To inclose in a corset.

Wiktionary

1. n. A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust.
2. v. transitive To enclose in a corset; to wear a corset.
3. v. figuratively To restrict or confine.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
2. n. An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
3. v. To inclose in corsets.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
2. v. dress with a corset