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bustier, n.
(ˈbʌstɪeɪ, ˈbʊst-; ‖ bystje)
[a. Fr., f. buste bust n.1]
A short, close-fitting, often strapless bodice or top worn by women as a fashion garment.
1979Evening News 9 Aug. 25/4 A bustier is a tight, sculpted bodice with boning inserted in the side seams for extra shape and fit. 1982Christian Science Monitor 10 Nov. 19/3 These can be worn with loose floating shirt-jackets or long blousons over bare-midriff suntops or bustiers. 1986Guardian 10 Apr. 9/8 Other designers, too, have been producing denim lines—notably Katharine Hamnett, whose jeans, bustiers, shorts and jackets, trimmed with diamante, give nice well-off girls the chance to sleaze with the Rockers. 1989Times 28 June 21/3 Young ladies were sunbathing topless or even naked in Hyde Park and wearing bustiers in Oxford Street.
Add: Also attrib. as bustier dress, a dress having a bodice styled in this way.
1986N.Y. Times 13 Nov. a6 (Advt.), The lustrous glow of your shoulders is half the glamour of our bustier dress. 1992Wedding & Home June/July 78 (caption) White silk bustier dress and bolero jacket with lemon beads and embroidery by Allison Blake. |