Word Meanings - BRASSIERE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

• Supportment
  Support.
• Supportress
  A female supporter.
• Breastsummer
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.
• Stiffened
  of Stiffen
• Womanhead
  Alt. of Womanhede
• Stiffening
  of Stiffen
• Womanhede
  Womanhood.
• Womanhood
  The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
• Stiffener
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• Supported
  of Support
• Supporting
  of Support
• Womankind
  The females of the human race; women, collectively.
• Womanless
  Without a woman or women.
• Supportable
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.
• Womanlike
  Like a woman; womanly.

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