(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.
Plastron
Definition:
(n.) A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast.
(n.) An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.
(n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.
(n.) A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plastron region is composed of elaborate stalked aeropyles above a highly dissected inner reticulum.
(2) The plastron region partially encircles the micropyle (anterior end) of the egg and extends along the dorsal surface to the posterior pole; it is delineated laterally by the hatch lines.
(3) Rib abnormalities (duplications, fusions, and spurs) were found in 55 of 2,016 plastron roentgenograms, sternal foramina were found in 135, and episternal bones were found in 51.
(4) The most useful features are the shape and structure of the plastronic area between the hatching pleats.
(5) Included are the gross structure and surface characteristics of the chorion, the basic architecture and internal components of the chorion proper, the location and function of the hatch lines, and the functional morphology of the plastron region as a respiratory structure.
(6) The cavity after bathing is subjected to ultrasound cavitation; fibrinous film and gauze plastrons, impregnated with hemostatic sponge, are placed in it with the proximal and distal ends connection to the tubular drainage in order to ensure permanent lavage of cavity with antiseptic solution and active vacuum aspiration of its content with the subsequent application of sutures on the wound, tight bandaging of a limb and its immobilization.
(7) Respiration is thought to be facilitated by openings at the base of the anterior pole as well as by openings through the "plastron" around the main body of the shell.
(8) Consistent with their primary function as a protective covering, the carapace and plastron are heavily keratinised.
(9) Bone cells and osteoid were more common in dermal bone biopsies from the carapace and plastron of captive juvenile desert tortoises than in adult desert tortoises.
(10) With consideration for the great variety of the forms of deformity of the plastron, simple and complicated forms of FCD are distinguished.
(11) Characteristic changes that can be demonstrated on roentgenograms occur with increasing age in the plastron (chest plate) of humans.
(12) The epidermis is much thicker over the plastron of the loggerhead turtle.
(13) A large, topographically well-placed Plastron incision, separation and reposition of the m. pectoralis and m. obliquus internus abdominis using cross-stitch sutures, as well as the careful manipulation of tissues, are of great importance.