(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.
Robing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Robe
(n.) The act of putting on a robe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many turned up in their bright robes and burqas, and some incredibly emotional scenes ensued.
(2) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
(3) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
(4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(5) 5.13am BST Pacquiao enters He's heading in, wearing a white robe with blue trim, and looking like he does...relaxed.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters in KKK robes disrupt confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions Sessions defended his brand of law-and-order conservatism, pledging to reverse a recent spike in violent crime in some US cities and to tackle a heroin addiction epidemic that has afflicted several regions.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lawrence’s white silk robes, which were presented to him after the capture of Aqaba.
(8) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Bathrobe One of these characters is in the bath, the other is wearing some kind of robe.
(9) A monk broke off from texting long enough to slip his phone inside his robes and give me a blessing Hpa-An was sleepy but charming and lay on the Thanlyin river, my route to Mawlamyine.
(10) "Chisora climbed down from the top table," he said, "removed his robe and then walked towards me, entourage in tow, in an aggressive manner.
(11) Asked by judges for an explanation, the black-robed prosecutor Siddiq al-Sur said: "He was allowed visits, he was allowed to see his daughter, his cousins.
(12) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
(13) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
(14) As kick-off at the Al-Ahli stadium approaches, a rust-coloured moon rises in the sky and a few rich Qataris in immaculate robes settle into their air-conditioned executive boxes.
(15) Then he reached deep into his robes, beamed a huge smile and offered me a sweet.
(16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(17) A website for the group includes an image of Ancona in a white hood and robe standing in front of a burning cross.
(18) López, who wears a bulletproof vest under his robes at mass, said that compared to the cartel and the government, the vigilantes stood out as a "lesser evil", which was also gathering support among wealthy locals who were secretly channelling funds their way.
(19) So the eyes and ears of the eurozone will be on the eight red-robed judges of Germany's highest court this week when they deliver a long-awaited verdict over whether a financial rescue fund considered crucial to the future of the euro gets the green light.
(20) "The life of a fake sheikh where I disguise myself as a multimillionaire Arab with full robes and an entourage of flunkies isn't all five-star hotels, limos, yachts and dining with the rich and famous," he said in 2008 in an interview to mark the launch of his memoir, Confessions of a Fake Sheikh.