brassiere

noun

bras·siere | \brə-ˈzir also ˌbra-sē-ˈer

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Definition of brassiere

: a woman's undergarment to cover and support the breasts

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Depression sounded like a blues woman who kept switchblades in her garters, flasks in her brassiere and whiskey on her tongue (or gin, depending on the day). — Maiysha Kai, The Root, "Just an Ordinary Pain: Living With Persistent Depressive Disorder," 16 May 2018 From bricks to brassieres to beer, Lake Bluff has produced a variety of products, from the practical to whimsical over more than 150 years. — Lake County News-Sun, "Calendar: Climate change the focus of Lake Forest panel discussion," 14 May 2018 Dermatologists agree that women can get away with washing their brassieres after every three or four wears. — Southern Living, "How Often Should You Wash Your Bras? The Answer Will Shock You," 2 May 2018 Her grandmother pulled $100 from her brassiere as a gift. — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, "That N. Philly handyman who died alone? He's back with his people | Helen Ubiñas," 10 Apr. 2018 The event is free, but those who donate $15 to the fund will receive a copy of the book, which continues the story of a midlife wife who loses her brassiere-manufacturer husband to a model but finds new love and a new life. — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, "Write Stuff: Anna Quindlen Speaks About New Novel, Authors Share 'Poetry Of Presence'," 14 Mar. 2018 Just visible under a much-unbuttoned cornflower-blue blouse is a lace brassiere that, in context, reads more like medieval armature than an erotic statement. — Phoebe Eaton, Harper's BAZAAR, "L'Wren Scott Rocks," 23 Mar. 2011 Rayburn, a satirist, had written a previous book about the putative (and non-existent) inventor of the brassiere, Otto Titzling, leading many to believe that Crapper had never existed. — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, "Three True Things About Sanitary Engineer Thomas Crapper," 28 Sep. 2017 Nineteen days later, a quail hunter found her body clad only in a brassiere, face down among trees off Foresthill Road east of Auburn. — Cathy Locke, sacbee, "Any hope of arrest in 1991 death of woman who disappeared from Granite Bay home? | The Sacramento Bee," 25 Oct. 2017

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