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).
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From bricks to brassieres to beer, Lake Bluff has produced a variety of products, from the practical to whimsical over more than 150 years.
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Dermatologists agree that women can get away with washing their brassieres after every three or four wears.
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Her grandmother pulled $100 from her brassiere as a gift.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nineteen days later, a quail hunter found her body clad only in a brassiere, face down among trees off Foresthill Road east of Auburn.
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Origin and Etymology of brassiere
obsolete French brassière bodice, from Old French braciere arm protector, from bras arm — more at bracelet
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