Bodice
- n. A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman’s dress, or a portion of it.
- n. A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.