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- proper noun As "The Wonderbra," a push-up, plunge style
brassiere style originally designed and manufactured by the Canadian Lady Corset Company beginning in 1961. - proper noun An international brand of women's intimate apparel that has included brassieres, corsets, girdles, panties, pantyhose, stockings, and swimwear.
- proper noun A Canadian corporation: Canadian Lady Corset Company was known by Canadian consumers and industry as Wonderbra from the 1960s to 1980s.
- proper noun A brassiere name first used in 1935 in the United States and globally licensed in 1939.
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Examples
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More often, a middle-aged grumpiness tends to place me on the "old" side, as when I open a leading feminist work and find a prominent third-wave feminist defending her "extreme bikini wax" or read a feminist blog in which a young woman avers that "wearing a Wonderbra is a statement of empowerment" and expounds on the pleasures of "choosing between 'apricot sundae' and 'mocha melt' eye shadow."
Lisa Solod Warren: Who Gets to Call Herself a Feminist Matters More Than We Might Think Lisa Solod Warren 2010
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New York, September 24: The Queen of Burlesque Dita Von Teese has launched her new collection of 'Wonderbra'.
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Thirty-five-year-old Tanja Kiewitz has recreated Eva Herzigova's famous Wonderbra ad reading, Look me in the eyes ...
Handless Model Tanja Kiewitz Recreates Wonderbra Ad To Promote Disability Awareness (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010
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As the cold war ushered in jutting, cone-shaped bras, the business passed to Peller's cousin, who continued its bespoke service despite the industry's own nuclear threat: the Wonderbra, which rose to prominence, so to speak, in North America in the late 1960s.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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Thirty-five-year-old Tanja Kiewitz has recreated Eva Herzigova's famous Wonderbra ad reading, Look me in the eyes ...
Handless Model Tanja Kiewitz Recreates Wonderbra Ad To Promote Disability Awareness (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010
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Thirty-five-year-old Tanja Kiewitz has recreated Eva Herzigova's famous Wonderbra ad reading, Look me in the eyes ...
Handless Model Tanja Kiewitz Recreates Wonderbra Ad To Promote Disability Awareness (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010
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A romp through bra history sees the advent of adjustable straps and the creation of cups in the 1920s, the sanctity of which, in the days of eye-popping Wonderbra cleavages, Kenton is keen to preserve.
From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all 2011
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Thirty-five-year-old Tanja Kiewitz has recreated Eva Herzigova's famous Wonderbra ad reading, Look me in the eyes ...
Handless Model Tanja Kiewitz Recreates Wonderbra Ad To Promote Disability Awareness (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010
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My server wore cat's eye glasses, a Wonderbra that made her breasts like the embryos from Alien wanting to burst their way out of her Hooters t-shirt but couldn't.
We All Look So Perfect As We All Fall Down J. Bradley 2011
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Thirty-five-year-old Tanja Kiewitz has recreated Eva Herzigova's famous Wonderbra ad reading, Look me in the eyes ...
Handless Model Tanja Kiewitz Recreates Wonderbra Ad To Promote Disability Awareness (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010
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