corsetière

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English

Noun

corsetière (plural corsetières)

  1. Alternative spelling of corsetiere.
    • 1921, United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter, volume 75, page 16, column 2:
      The woman had been in a hospital and upon her recovery was advised that she should wear a corset, whereupon a corsetière was sent for and she was fitted in the hospital.
    • 1924, Grace King, La Dame de Sainte Hermine, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 265:
      It was whispered that he was thinking of importing a corsetière. Imagine—a corsetière!
    • 1926, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume 43, page 70:
      A corsetière in a department store, who has made a study of corset requirements for many years, has been amazed at the general slowness to consider the figure seriously.
    • 1954, Norah Waugh, Corsets and Crinolines, London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, page 85:
      In 1900 Mme Gaches-Sarraute, of Paris, a corsetière who had studied medicine, designed a new corset to remedy this.
    • 2004, David Kunzle, Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture, Stroud, Glos: The History Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
      A lady reporter sent to interview her (she had since become a corsetière and proud of her figure) was satisfied as to the truth of the story, and convinced the editor accordingly.
    • 2009, Christine Bayles Kortsch, “Fashioning Women: The Victorian Corset”, in Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction: Literacy, Textiles, and Activism, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, page 69:
      In 1900, Madame Inez Gâches-Sarraute, a corsetière who also had a degree in medicine, invented the “straight-front” or “hygienic” corset.
    • 2014, Rachel Field, The Ipswich Book of Days, Stroud, Glos: The History Press, →ISBN:
      She set herself up as a corsetière, making and selling stays and corsets from her shop in Tacket Street.

French

Noun

corsetière f (plural corsetières)

  1. female equivalent of corsetier: female corsetmaker

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