(n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
(n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
(v. t.) To inclose in corsets.
Example Sentences:
(1) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(2) Contrary to the doctor's instructions all patients examined only wore the corset during certain periods of time according to a time schedule fixed with the parents only, therefore lacking any official authorization.
(3) The lumbosacral corset, Jewett extension brace, and plastic thoracolumbosacral orthosis (TLSO) were then placed and repeat roentgenograms were done to see if effective immobilization could be obtained.
(4) Fans of pale pink corset dresses that are wildly inappropriate for anywhere but the red carpet will have to remain ignorant.
(5) Passive correction by such methods as non-mobile corrective corsets or plaster jackets are contra-indicated.
(6) Therefore compressive vertebral fracture of the youngster should be reduced and fixed by a corset.
(7) Age, height, weight, body mass index, retirement or physical strenuousness of work showed no statistically significant correlation with the subjective relief gained from the corset.
(8) Corsets and crinolines, boxers and bras … the history of underwear is also an intimate history of changing attitudes to gender, sex, hygiene and morality.
(9) Therapy of spondylodiscitis using a light cast corset is described and it's advantages over other methods are shown.
(10) Although most pulmonary function tests were improved when the patients were supine the trends when sitting were for improvement when wearing a corset.
(11) Subjective help obtained from the corset was reported as excellent or good in 37% of the returned questionnaires.
(12) The Queen no longer exercises her right to have this bounty hauled on to her dinner table or cut up to make corsets, but the CSIP fills in, building on work done at the Natural History Museum since 1913 when formal records of strandings began.
(13) As many as 89 per cent of the patients reported that they used the corset because it supported their back or because it not only gave such support, but also relief from the pain.
(14) It is staggeringly intricate in construction, with two internal corsets; a baby blue silk bow has been stitched by hand, for luck, into the lining.
(15) She dressed in a black Zac Posen gown, sported a a figure-hugging Donna Karan dress as she sat in her $180,000 Porsche 911 GTS RS and in a revealing black corset by Agent Provocateur.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A museum worker adjusts a contemporary corset by House of Harlot.
(17) Therefore it seems necessary to treat fractures of the vertebral spine with immediate reposition (ventraler Durchhang) and following immobilisation with a plastic corset Lightcast, Hexcelite).
(18) The rigid TLSO and Raney jackets were most restrictive when compared with the Camp corset and the elastic corset.
(19) The response to a corset was slow, but the long-tern effects were at least as good as those of the other treatments.
(20) The indication for proceeding to corset therapy was either due to Scheuermann's disease or scoliotic disease.
Cosset
Definition:
(n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.
Example Sentences:
(1) You could have left acting at a young age, already rich and cosseted, to live an authentic life.
(2) In other words, the noise surrounding this debate, not to mention the TV duel, will only partly be about whether Britain should be in Europe or not: the rest of it, one would imagine, will centre on the issue of immigration, both in terms of its links with the EU, and as a public concern that informs just about every other area of policy – and, implicitly or otherwise, the sense a lot of people have that we are governed by a homogeneous, well-heeled, cosseted bunch of politicians, and among the only people who offer any kind of alternative is Farage, complete with his pint and fag.
(3) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(4) If universities are the prestigious eldest, and schools the cosseted youngest, then further education (FE) is the unloved middle child of our education system – undervalued and often neglected.
(5) Rail operators on short-term franchises have been cosseted by the state, which bails them out when things go wrong and hasn't encouraged them to invest or keep costs down.
(6) That is another trait of the cosseted self-delusionists: they are as quick to forget as they are to "move on", as the expression goes.
(7) In my cosseted complacency, I had mistakenly believed that modern Scotland was a good place to practise the curious rituals of my cantankerous, old Catholic faith.
(8) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
(9) He has attacked Maréchal-Le Pen as “the most dangerous of the three Le Pens”, slamming her for her “extremism” and her cosseted upbringing at her grandfather’s posh manor estate outside Paris.
(10) He was very cosseted, and that is what we captured.
(11) Using our previously described Haydée semipackaging cell line (F. L. Cosset, C. Legras, Y. Chebloune, P. Savatier, P. Thoraval, J. L. Thomas, J. Samarut, V. M. Nigon, and G. Verdier, J. Virol.
(12) I’m not happy until every contour of my lower half is cosseted by fabric, my britches foisted on to my legs with a combination of Vaseline, washing-up liquid, and the strength of two assistants.
(13) This is partly because many competitors are by definition much closer to everyday reality than some of their more cosseted sporting contemporaries.
(14) As cosseted corporations have opted for a cheap, often migrant workforce instead of investing their cash mountains, the result has been mass underemployment, agency working, short and zero-hours contracts, bogus self-employment and rampant low pay.
(15) These cosseted beneficiaries of an iniquitous order are also quick to ostracise the stray dissenter among them, as the case of Greece reveals.
(16) Meanwhile, the ever cosseted grey voters are kept happy by his decision to allow them to pass on their tax-free ISA allowances to spouses when they die.
(17) Yet again, this spoiled nonentity is cosseted by his party: though he stands as an “independent”, the Conservatives will try to save his bacon by setting no candidate against him, to avoid splitting their vote.
(18) The thinktank authors decry the NHS as "an outdated, cosseted and unaffordable healthcare system".
(19) Perry, who took a seven-year break from her career in management consulting when her children were young, said mothers were often behind youngsters' cosseting because their own careers struggle when they start a family.
(20) The way he tells it, he was so cosseted that he had never come into contact with working-class life.