bust improver
bust improver noun: a late Victorian and Edwardian-era woman’s undergarment providing padding for the breasts.
Noun
bust improver (plural bust improvers)
- A late Victorian and Edwardian-era woman’s undergarment providing padding for the breasts.
- The advertisement which I see most often, whether it be of a perfume which I never use, or of a lady’s “bust-improver” which is no concern of mine, is the one which sticks in my memory.1899, Vincent O’Sullivan, “Same”, in The Green Window, London: Leonard Smithers, page 14
- I walked along a tiled corridor decorated with advertisements for lingerie and bust improvers—was allotted a tiny cabin and a blue print chemise and told to undress and find the Warm Room as soon as possible.1913, Katherine Mansfield, “Bains Turcs”, in The Blue Review, volume I, number 3, page 181
Forms of bust improver
| plural | bust improvers |
|---|
Questions about bust improver
- What does bust improver mean?
- Bust improver means a late Victorian and Edwardian-era woman’s undergarment providing padding for the breasts.
- What part of speech is bust improver?
- Bust improver is a noun.
- What is the plural of bust improver?
- The plural of bust improver is bust improvers.
Words near bust improver in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bust improver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “bust improver.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bust_improver. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.