corsetière

plural corsetières

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of corsetiere.

   It was whispered that he was thinking of importing a corsetière. Imagine—a corsetière!

   1924, Grace King, La Dame de Sainte Hermine, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 265

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   The woman had been in a hospital and upon her recovery was advised that she should wear a corset, whereupon a corsetière was sent for and she was fitted in the hospital.

   1921, United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter, volume 75, page 16, column 2

   A corsetière in a department store, who has made a study of corset requirements for many years, has been amazed at the general slowness to consider the figure seriously.

   1926, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume 43, page 70

   In 1900 Mme Gaches-Sarraute, of Paris, a corsetière who had studied medicine, designed a new corset to remedy this.

   1954, Norah Waugh, Corsets and Crinolines, London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, page 85

   A lady reporter sent to interview her (she had since become a corsetière and proud of her figure) was satisfied as to the truth of the story, and convinced the editor accordingly.

   2004, David Kunzle, Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture, Stroud, Glos: The History Press, published 2013, →ISBN

   In 1900, Madame Inez Gâches-Sarraute, a corsetière who also had a degree in medicine, invented the “straight-front” or “hygienic” corset.

   2009, Christine Bayles Kortsch, “Fashioning Women: The Victorian Corset”, in Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction: Literacy, Textiles, and Activism, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, page 69