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bodicing

bodicing noun: the design, construction, or wearing of a bodice.

Noun

bodicing (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The design, construction, or wearing of a bodice.
    • Her bosom—for her summer bodicing / Clung with such loving closeness to her shape / And told as traitor what it should have hid— / Stood with obtrusion’s modest veiling out / Demurely perfect.1901, Heather Bigg, “What impression Nell creates on Robert”, in Nell. A Tale of the Thames., London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., Ltd., […], page 71
    • WOMEN’S ORLON-NYLON TAFFETA SLIPS / Regularly $11. Lavish lace bodicing, zip closing.1955 March 15, “Macy’s M-O-M”, in Daily Independent-Journal, 94th year, number 301, San Rafael, Calif., page 3, column 5

Examples of bodicing in a sentence

  • The bloom of fashion / Figure-following silk, aglow with Spring flowers (species: anonymous) and a new twist in bodicing that’s stunningly becoming!1959 February 20, “Jelleff’s”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald, 82nd year, number 77, Washington, D.C., page A19, column 5:
  • A cunning (but comfortable) piece of stiff bodicing showed off more cleavage than she was used to, and emphasized her narrow waist and curvaceous hips.1998, Maxine Barry, Dark Desire, London: Scarlet, →ISBN, page 246:
  • I could tell that beneath her skirt frame and her stiff bodicing she was a small thin figure and she was getting old.2001, Moira Butterfield, The Diary of a Young Elizabethan Actor, London: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 56:

Origin of bodicing

From bodice + -ing.

Questions about bodicing

What does bodicing mean?
Bodicing means the design, construction, or wearing of a bodice.
How do you use bodicing in a sentence?
The bloom of fashion / Figure-following silk, aglow with Spring flowers (species: anonymous) and a new twist in bodicing that’s stunningly becoming!
What part of speech is bodicing?
Bodicing is a noun.

Words near bodicing in the dictionary

  1. bodice-rippings
  2. bodiced
  3. bodiceripper
  4. bodicerippers
  5. bodices
  6. bodicing
  7. bodie
  8. bodied
  9. bodied forth
  10. bodies
  11. bodies corporate

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