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part of a dress above the waist

or more archaically: a type of women's underwear worn above the waste

Her yellow pagne is double-wrapped and her ornate bodice cut low on her large bosom.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

"Hi," he said as he got close, reaching out with the pin toward my bodice, his breath hot and sweet.
Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You
She did not wear a low-cut bodice and the large brooch which was fixed in the front of her collar bore on it an Irish device and motto.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
The bodice of her dress was ragged, a nondescript tawny colour, with stains on it.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
And Mrs. Bread stroked her black satin bodice.
Henry James -- The American
I felt in my bodice and again in my waistband, I shook out the folds of my sari, but there was no doubt the money was gone.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
Why do you and I wear open-work silk stockings, skirts to our knees, gowns without sleeves or bodices?
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
But they were such large breasts, straining against the bodice of her polka-dot dress, and she was wearing big white sandals with high heels.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
I said at the time that the bodice should be cut longer, and made of two widths.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
With her bandaged forefinger she dug out a slender chain which hung around her neck and pulled the chain's burden up from her bodice.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
She had chosen to wear a yellow sundress, which showed off her tanned, muscular arms and hugged her bodice tightly.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
It has a tight bodice, a low neck, a full skirt; it brushes against my bare legs as I walk.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Now this was written at a time when the black limber bone of the Greenland or Right whale was largely used in ladies' bodices.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Her dress was void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula, as if galaxies were being born in her bodice.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
"Now, Katniss, because this bodice is so fitted, I don't want you raising your arms above your head.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
Next moment the stairs creaked and Mrs Perks came down, buttoning her bodice.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
Girls in dresses with low backs, with scooped bodices showing actual cleavage, with Empire waists.
Stephen King -- Carrie
Genet, too, was transformed, radiant, wearing a traditional cotton skirt and tight bodice, with a matching shama around her shoulders.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The woman was positively known to have worn handkerchiefs in her bodice as padding—oh, the town had simply roared at her.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

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