Etymology

corselet

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Today it means: Armor for the body, for example a breastplate and backpiece taken together. Full definition →

French corselet
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  1. French · derived fromcorselet
  2. English todaycorselet

From French corselet, from cors, an archaic spelling of corps (“body”).

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