corset

plural corsets

1. A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust.

   Today was Sunday, and Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord’s Day. I guess it was her Sunday corset.

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

2. historicalA tight-fitting gown or basque worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages.
3. UKhistoricalbusinessA regulation that limited the growth of British banks' interest-bearing deposits.

present singular third person corsets · participle present corseting · participle present corsetting · participle past corseted · past corseted · participle past corsetted · past corsetted

1. transitiveTo enclose in a corset; to wear a corset.

   Mabel dreaded the upcoming ball and the preliminary corseting it would entail.

2. figurativelyTo restrict or confine.

   I will not remain corseted by your notions of what is and is not proper!

   1 more example

   They were trying to free the lives of women of all sexualities and genders that were tightly corseted by lack of basic social and economic rights.

   2004 July 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany”, in Workers World