All 3 Uses of
bodice
in
Don Quixote
- Finally the landlady dressed up the curate in a style that left nothing to be desired; she put on him a cloth petticoat with black velvet stripes a palm broad, all slashed, and a bodice of green velvet set off by a binding of white satin, which as well as the petticoat must have been made in the time of king Wamba.†
Chpt 1.27-28 *
- I send thee here a green hunting suit that my lady the duchess gave me; alter it so as to make a petticoat and bodice for our daughter.†
Chpt 2.35-36
- At these words her mother Teresa Panza came out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey petticoat (so short was it one would have fancied "they to her shame had cut it short"), a grey bodice of the same stuff, and a smock.†
Chpt 2.49-50
Definition:
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(bodice) part of a dress above the waist
or more archaically: a type of women's underwear worn above the waste