Anticorset

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposing the wearing of corsets.

    "From the Reverend Saltzmann, who offered a prize for the best anticorset essay in 1788, via Soemmerring's winning the award, via the burning of the corset by pan-Germanic student fraternities in 1817 […]"

Example

More examples

"From the Reverend Saltzmann, who offered a prize for the best anticorset essay in 1788, via Soemmerring's winning the award, via the burning of the corset by pan-Germanic student fraternities in 1817 […]"

Etymology

From anti- + corset.

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