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• The low neckline of her bodice emphasized her plump, voluptuous figure.From the entry voluptuous
• My aunt would bring a stack of torrid bodice rippers with her to the beach, and would unfailingly blush if disturbed in her reading.From the entry bodice ripper
• She wore an appliquéd lace bodice with a ruffle of layered tulle at the waist.2022 March 16, Sean Malin, “Love Is in the Air. So Is Dander.”, in The New York Times. From the entry Brussels griffon
• Emma stunned in the champagne pink off-the-shoulder gown, which featured an elaborately embroidered bodice.2018 July 2, Connie Rusk, “Emma Roberts looks ethereal in champagne pink gown as she attends star-studded Dior show in Paris”, in Daily Mail. From the entry champagne pink
• What do you get when you cross bodice rippers with Amish fiction?2013, Husna Haq, “'Bonnet rippers'? Amish romances are only gaining in popularity”, in Christian Science Monitor. From the entry bonnet ripper
• An update on the bodice ripper, but so much more chaste.2013, Rebecca Armstrong, “Bonnet rippers: a new kind of romantic fiction”, in The Independent. From the entry bonnet ripper
• Anyway, the bodice had a scooped neckline and short sleeves, with a silver lace overbodice.2013, Alice Duncan, Ancient Spirits. From the entry overbodice
• Even a vampire enjoys a little bodice ripping now and again.2011, Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel. From the entry bodice ripping
• Her bodices fully covered her ample poitrine right up to her nonexistent neck.2008, Leslie Carroll, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy, Penguin, →ISBN…. From the entry poitrine
• Unlike the sweet virgins of earlier romances, the heroines of the bodice rippers were notoriously feisty.1999, Paulette Richards, “Literary Contexts”, in Kathleen Gregory Klein, editor, Terry McMillan: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions…. From the entry bodice ripper
• She served us dinner in a moomoo low cut around the bodice.1991, Richard M. Elman, Tar Beach, Sun and Moon Press. From the entry moomoo
• She wears only white khaddar saris and white khaddar blouses beneath which is her coarse bandage-tight bodice.1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 6. From the entry khaddar
• The lowcut bodice enveloped her rounded shoulders with a smoothness born of art.1972, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine: or, Rising from bonds. From the entry lowcut
• She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. From the entry launch
• This silhouet features broad shoulders, a fitted, slim bodice and waistline, with full, flared swing skirt.1936, Missouri Ruralist, volume 77, page 11. From the entry silhouet
• The upper classes wear a sleeved polka jacket instead of the bodice.1911, “India”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. From the entry polka jacket
• I felt like a beetle at a cartoon Renaissance fair, staring at rows of mommy milkers peeking through manga bodices.2022 November 2, Steffi Cao, “Big Mommy Milkers Are A Shield Against Online Harassment, Vtubers Say”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the…. From the entry milker
• With a maya blue bodice and yale blue skirt, the pleated dress featured a bow like wrap on her left shoulder.2019 September 7, Kellie Chudzinski, “Heather Graham cuts an elegant style in a one shoulder blue gown at the TIFF premiere of her film…. From the entry Yale blue
• First was the flowing, purple A-line with a sparkly bodice.2015, Ali Novak, chapter 21, in The Heartbreakers (The Heartbreak Chronicles; 1), Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Fire, published 2024, →ISBN. From the entry prommy
• Then she took off the bodice that encased her upper body and the bum roll that fullened her hips.2012, William Martin, Cape Cod. From the entry fullen
• The playsuit combines shorts, a skirt, and a backless bodice.2010, Mary Beth Klatt, Chicago's Fashion History: 1865–1945, →ISBN. From the entry playsuit
• Old Order Amishwomen wear plain-cut dresses fitted loosely at the waist and sometimes fashioned with a capelike appendage over the bodice.2006, Pauline Stevick, Beyond the Plain and Simple: A Patchwork of Amish Lives, The Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Amishwoman
• She was an ordinary woman in her dress style; she didn't wear a leather bodice or naff over-knee plastic spiky-heeled boots.1998, Robert Llewellyn, The Man on Platform Five, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry naff
• I was unwigging myself, wiping off the white from my chubby boy’s face, easing myself out of bodice and fardingale.1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Carroll & Graf, published 1995, Part 1, pp. 14-15. From the entry unwig
• Her medium-length dress was of grey soie sauvage with a square-cut bodice, lasciviously tight across her fine breasts.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Girl From Headquarters”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 39. From the entry lasciviously
• Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry lading-can
• “It was from my great-grandmother's wedding gown.” Helena added, “The seed pearls on the bodice were sown by three generations of Romandia women.”2011, Raul Angulo Coronel, The Cortez Coins: The Moctezuma Treasure, BookBaby, →ISBN. From the entry Romandia
• Rucci, a slithery black jersey dress with a pavé of sequins at the hip and a taut, racerlike bodice signaled a turn.2007 October 9, Cathy Horyn, “The Handbag Gets the Last Word”, in New York Times. From the entry racerlike
• My great-grandmother wore a brief empire bodice, and close-fitting Directoire skirt made of cream silk with a golden stripe running through it.1956, Ursula Bloom, Victorian Vinaigrette. From the entry directoire
• A dinner dress was of pink velvet made with a crystaled topped bodice and a huge bow of the velvet forming the bustle.1917 November 2, The Skirt [pseudonym], “Among the Women”, in Variety, volume XLVIII, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Variety, Inc., →ISSN…. From the entry crystaled
• After much bosom heaving and bodice ripping, Diana becomes conscious of her love for the “lawless savage,” and she decides to stay with him in their love oasis.2013, Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, page 93. From the entry bodice ripping
• Old photos show her in typical twenties styles—tight-fitting black dresses with lace, low-slung wide belts, large ornamental pins on her equally large bodice, funny hats with feathers.2001, Toni McNaron, I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, →ISBN. From the entry twenties
• There's nothing “ick” about him, but I'm not sure how to say that without sounding like I'm reciting lines from that terrible bodice ripper I took on Theo's practice date.2021, Jacqueline Firkins, How Not to Fall in Love, page 201. From the entry ick
• A tale of skulduggery, bodice rippery, and shoot-’em-up action unfolds, complete with help from a luscious mistress of disguise who could have stepped right out of a James Bond novel.2016, The Chemist review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 November 2016, page 188. From the entry bodice-rippery
• The witchoura, or fur coat, continued in fashion, although the design of the sleeves, bodice, and skirt were modified to correspond to the changing silhouette of the gowns worn beneath.1979, Marybelle S. Bigelow, “Romanticism and the Industrial Age (1815–1870)”, in Fashion in History: Western Dress, Prehistoric to…. From the entry witzchoura

Meaning of bodice

1. noun A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
2. noun A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.
3. noun The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt, sometimes specifically excluding the sleeves.

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How do you use bodice in a sentence?

Bodice is used as a noun. For example: “The low neckline of her bodice emphasized her plump, voluptuous figure.”

What is a short sentence with bodice?

“First was the flowing, purple A-line with a sparkly bodice.”

What does bodice mean?

Bodice means a corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.