Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman's undergarment worn to support the breasts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A form of woman's undergarment, often stiffened with wire or whalebones, or the like, and worn to cover and support the breasts; -- also called
bra . It usually has straps which support it from the shoulders, but strapless variants are also made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An item of
underwear worn to support thebreasts ; now commonly shortened tobra .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word brassiere comes from the Old French braciere, which was a piece worn on the arm as protection.
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Duke Ravos IV 2010
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The word brassiere comes from the Old French braciere, which was a piece worn on the arm as protection.
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Duke Ravos IV 2010
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The word brassiere comes from the Old French braciere, which was a piece worn on the arm as protection.
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Duke Ravos IV 2010
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The word brassiere comes from the Old French braciere, which was a piece worn on the arm as protection.
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Duke Ravos IV 2010
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The word brassiere comes from the Old French braciere, which was a piece worn on the arm as protection.
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Duke Ravos IV 2010
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A rummage through the Rigby & Peller archive, which is stored in silk-lined suitcases in an office above its Conduit Street store in Mayfair, shows that a lot has changed since Vogue coined the term "brassiere" in 1907.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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I had once looked up the word brassiere in the dictionary, and I had been aroused: “A woman’s undergarment worn to support the breasts.”
THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998
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The word brassiere first appeared in fashion bible Vogue a century ago.
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Just the word brassiere, or its shortened form, bra, was enough to stimulate me, and to say to myself “Mary’s bra” was deadly.
THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998
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I think that it is funny that the bra-burners forgot that originally the brassiere was a liberation for women, a step up from the corset when the country needed extra metal for the war.
Inflammatory! 2009
Dan337 commented on the word brassiere
January 1, 2011