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bust improvers

bust improvers is the plural of bust improver.

Meaning of bust improver

Noun

bust improver (plural bust improvers)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about bust improvers

What is bust improvers the plural of?
Bust improvers is the plural of bust improver.

Words near bust improvers in the dictionary

  1. bust ass cold
  2. bust chops
  3. bust down
  4. bust downs
  5. bust improver
  6. bust improvers
  7. bust in
  8. bust into
  9. bust it down
  10. bust off
  11. bust on

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