3 uses
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Definition
part of a dress above the waist
or more archaically: a type of women's underwear worn above the waste
or more archaically: a type of women's underwear worn above the waste
- Then she didn't have on anything but her bodice and drawers, and Quentin slapped her and she slipped and fell down in the water.1 — April 7, 1928 (21% in)
- She went and helped Caddy take off her bodice and drawers.1 — April 7, 1928 (99% in)
- She turnedher back I went aroundin front ofher the rain creepinginto the mud flatting her bodice throughherdressit smelled horrible.2 — June 2, 1910 (61% in)
There are no more uses of "bodice" in The Sound and the Fury.
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