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单词 bodice
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bodicen.

/ˈbɒdɪs/
Forms: 1500s–1600s bodies, 1700s–1800s boddice, 1600s– bodice.
Etymology: A variant of bodies (see body n. 4c), retaining the earlier sound of final -s, the original phrase being ‘a pair of bodies’; even with the spelling bodice the word was formerly (like pence, mice, dice, truce) treated as a plural.
1. Formerly.
a. An inner garment for the upper part of the body, quilted and strengthened with whalebone (worn chiefly by women, but also by men); a corset, stays; frequently called a pair of bodies (bodice) = a pair of stays at stay n.2 3a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > bodice
waistcoat1580
petticoat body1585
bodicea1625
jump1666
jacket bodice1856
camisole1866
spencer1881
bust bodice1889
liberty bodice1892
petticoat bodice1919
cami1995
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > corset
busk1581
a pair of stays1608
bodicea1625
stay1731
corset1795
belt1818
foundation garment1927
foundation1939
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice
lyfkie1578
bodicea1625
waist1816
shirt-gown1889
a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ddd4/2 If the bones want setting In her old bodies.
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xlii. 32 in Wks. (1640) III The whale-bone man That quilts those bodies, I have leave to span.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. v. 131 A Flower without its Empalement, would hang as uncouth and taudry as a Lady without her Bodies.
1679 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 23 Mowbray..having a pair of bodice on, and falling down as if really dead, the assassinate fled.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4196/4 A pair of new blewish Bodice.
1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 224 [Pope] was invested in boddice made of stiff canvass, being scarce able to hold himself erect till they were laced.
b. figurative.
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1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 30 Nov. 2/1 His Sentiment when let loose from that stiff Boddice in which it is laced.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1872) III. xviii. 303/1 It was never..found politic to put trade into straitlaced bodices.
2. The upper part of a woman's dress, a tight-fitting outer vest or waistcoat, either made in a piece with the skirt or separate (cf. body n.); formerly also, an inner vest worn immediately over the stays.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > bodice
bodice1566
corsage1843
1566–7 Prec. Treas. in Chalmers Mary (1818) I. 207 Of ormaise taffatis to lyne the bodies and sclevis of the goune and vellicote.
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeee4/1 Nothing but her upper bodies.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 64 They wear a Bodies of Red or Green Velvet.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 276. ⁋3 He keeps me in a pair of Slippers, neat Bodice, warm Petticoats.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule vii. 105 She wore a tight-fitting bodice of cream-white flannel.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as bodice hand, bodice-maker, bodice-seller.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns
mercerc1230
clothier1362
draper1362
woolman1390
yarn-chopper1429
line-draper1436
Welsh drapera1525
telerc1540
purple-seller1547
linen-draper1549
staplera1552
silkman1553
woollen-draper1554
wool-driver1555
woolster1577
linener1616
woolner1619
linen-man1631
ragman1649
rag merchant1665
slop-seller1665
bodice-seller1672
piece-broker1697
wool-stapler1709
cloth-man1723
Manchester-man1755
fleece-merchanta1774
rag dealer1777
man's mercer1789
keelman1821
man-mercer1837
cotton-broker1849
slopper1854
shoddyite1865
costumier1886
cotton-man1906
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making other items of clothing > one who makes other items of clothing
wimpler1260
paltock-maker1376
wimplester1379
point-maker1405
girdler1428
silk-maid1474
pointer1500
middlemana1525
jack-maker1541
paste-wife1550
silkman1553
body-maker1573
linen-armourer1603
bodice-maker1672
costumier1798
costumer1830
costumist1842
rober1852
stock-maker1858
tie-maker1901
1672 R. Wild Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 2 A neighbouring Bodies-maker, that whistles a Psalm-tune.
1684 London Gaz. No. 1980/4 Mr. John Nichols Bodice seller at the Falcon on London Bridge.
1701 London Gaz. No. 3758/8 At Mr. Cade's, a Bodice-seller.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 20 Jan. 17 The Taylors and Boddice-makers of the present Age.

Draft additions 1997

bodice-ripper n. colloquial a sexually explicit romantic novel, esp. one in a historical setting with a plot involving the seduction of the heroine; also transferred, a film of a similar nature.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > romantic novel > sexually explicit
bodice-ripper1979
bonkbuster1988
1979 N.Y. Times 2 Sept. xxi. 2/5 Vanessa Royall is..enjoying a good reputation and lucrative income as the author of the sort of breathless historical romances (the latest is ‘Come Faith, Come Fire’) that are known in the publishing trade as bodice-rippers.
1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. Women..too have their pornography: Harlequin romances, novels of ‘sweet savagery’, bodice-rippers.
1981 J. Sutherland Bestsellers vii. 85 The most dramatic innovation in the field of popular women's fiction was the success of ‘hot ones’, ‘bodice rippers’, or ‘sweet and savages’ as they were called.
1984 E. Jong Parachutes & Kisses xii. 208 That scene in bodice-ripper romances where the vulnerable heroine meets the rakehell hero.
1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 408/3 British cinema belatedly grew up—or so people thought at the time. Out, by and large, went the last traces of the Gainsborough bodice-rippers.
1989 C. D. Geist in C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 863/2 Historic romances in an Old South setting were..similar to the traditional historical romance... By the 1970s the form was referred to as the ‘bodice ripper’ by critics.
1991 Gay Times Jan. 57/4 Replete with interesting details about gay life in the city at that time, this..novel is really a bodice-ripper constrained within a thriller corset.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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