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anticorset

anticorset adjective: opposing the wearing of corsets.

Adjective

anticorset (comparative more anticorset, superlative most anticorset)

  1. Opposing the wearing of corsets.
    • From the Reverend Saltzmann, who offered a prize for the best anticorset essay in 1788, via Soemmerring's winning the award, via the burning of the corset by pan-Germanic student fraternities in 1817 […]1979, New York Academy of Medicine, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (volume 55, issues 1-6)
    • Alcott, quite possibly influenced by his female colleagues, embraced a women's issue when he urged the founding of anticorset societies, whose members "signed the pledge" not to wear them.1991, Susan Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health, page 14

Forms of anticorset

comparativemore anticorset
superlativemost anticorset

Origin of anticorset

From anti- + corset.

Questions about anticorset

What does anticorset mean?
Anticorset means opposing the wearing of corsets.
What part of speech is anticorset?
Anticorset is an adjective.

Words near anticorset in the dictionary

  1. anticorrosion
  2. anticorrosive
  3. anticorrosives
  4. anticorruption
  5. anticors
  6. anticorset
  7. anticortisol
  8. Anticos
  9. anticosine
  10. anticosines
  11. anticosmetic

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