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bralette

bralette noun: a kind of bra without an underwire, used as a training bra.

Noun

bralette (plural bralettes)

  1. A kind of bra without an underwire, used as a training bra.
    • Of course it wasn’t a bra top. Bralettes, itty-bitty bandeaus and crocheted bikinis are everywhere. So, too, are Daisy Dukes cut high enough to expose buttocks curvature.2021 July 22, Guy Trebay, “Suddenly It’s Bare Season”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Soon sales of Victoria's Secret's most important category, bras, had started to decline as women shifted to bralettes and sports bras.2023 September 30, Chantal Fernandez, “Changing the formula”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5

Forms of bralette

pluralbralettes
alternative formbralet

Origin of bralette

From bra + -ette, with the addition of an l as in -let to prevent the sequence -ae-, or from French bralette where -l- similarly breaks up certain vowel sequences.

Questions about bralette

What does bralette mean?
Bralette means a kind of bra without an underwire, used as a training bra.
What part of speech is bralette?
Bralette is a noun.
What is the plural of bralette?
The plural of bralette is bralettes.

Words near bralette in the dictionary

  1. braky
  2. braless
  3. bralessness
  4. bralet
  5. bralets
  6. bralette
  7. bralettes
  8. Braley
  9. Braleys
  10. Brallisford
  11. Brallisfords

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