(n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
(n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the BBC cutting back on the number of "bonnet and bodice" adaptations in favour of more modern period drama , Davies said there was still room for big classic pieces.
(2) 244 patients left our clinic with a plaster bodice after fracture reposition, 153 came to the follow-up (most of the cases are documented radiologically from the first to the follow-up x-ray).
(3) Then over the cardigan you wear a gold leather bodice and then a giant tartan coat.
(4) She wore a small hat and a tight-bodiced, full-skirted shiny dark green dress – like one of my New York aunts dressed for a cocktail party.
(5) We could not find a relationship between the radiological and clinical results and we saw, that it is impossible to fix the spine sufficiently in a plaster bodice without fracture redislocation.
(6) Dolgellau might have been theme-parked up to become a Life In An 18th-Century Wool Town attraction, or overrun with Maggie Smiths and camera crews filming another bodice ripper.
(7) In the first published images of the couple’s August wedding in the south of France, Jolie wears a custom-designed ivory dress designed by Donatella Versace , featuring elegant spaghetti straps and a ruched bodice.
(8) At first glance there would seem to be few similarities between Jilly Cooper, the queen of bodice-ripping romance, Vivienne Westwood , fashion's enfant terrible, and Professor Richard Dawkins, scourge of religion.
(9) The exhibition shows one of its historical precedents in a dress from 1875 with a corset style bodice.
(10) Photograph: Getty Joan Rivers: “I like her, such a good actress, but the dress is ill-fitted, the slit is too short at the knee – the bodice of her dress makes her look like she has her left breast in a sling.” Rivers’ humour wasn’t lost on Kendrick.
(11) The beauty, but also the extraordinary cleverness of the engineering.” Wilcox discerns a distinctively British, David Attenborough-influenced cinematic vision of nature that recurs on the McQueen catwalk: the glistening feathers, the crisp shells, the seaspray sparkle of crystals – even, in Voss, a bodice of microscope slides, overlapping like giant fish scales.