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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The fact of not wearing a corset. historical, uncountable

   "Yet six years later, this trade journal expressed a decided panic about corsetlessness."

Example

More examples

"Yet six years later, this trade journal expressed a decided panic about corsetlessness."

Etymology

From corsetless + -ness.

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