(n.) Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.
Example Sentences:
(1) An increase was found during endocarditis in the number of patients with holosystolic murmurs (30.7% cases) versus those with click-telesystolic murmur, the appearance in 41.15% of the cases of valvular vegetations at the Echo examination, and in 15.38% cases of ruptures of cordages.
(2) In the ill female workers of that cordage factory, the microclimate, the needle shaped hemp dust, greasy skin, bad working conditions and had hygiene played an important part.
(3) As a rule, an oil acne occurs rather seldom in the cordage industry.
Corsage
Definition:
(n.) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
(n.) a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's a bridal gown for three- to six-year-olds, for instance, complete with a fake corsage.
(2) Not a single flower, corsage style, but an oval row, like a bower.
(3) I wore a new skirt and sweater set with a wrist corsage Mark bought me.
(4) Her professional stock-in-trade as a stage and television actress was a voice that could have made a regimental sergeant major tremble and a figure, suggesting an ample corsage filled with concrete, that wordlessly and hilariously forbade the taking of liberties.