corsetery

== English == === Alternative forms === corsetry === Etymology === From corset +‎ -ery. === Noun === corsetery (usually uncountable, plural corseteries) The practice of using (wearing) or making corsets. 1851, State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division---Third Department, page 49: The Company also agrees to give the corsetiere the benefit of it's own sales plans and training of salesmanship and corsetery. At the same time, the corsetiere agrees to purchase a demonstration line, which she uses in her own work ... 1920, The Silent Partner, volume 16, page 742: The innovation of the moment in corsetery is BIENJOLIE GRECIAN-TRECO REDELACD[sic] Corsets The all year round corset for the girls and women who lead active lives, and insist on ease, comfort and cleanliness as well as ... 2001, Valerie Steele, The Corset: A Cultural History, Yale University Press (→ISBN), page 67: Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry. 2007, Daniel Delis Hill, As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising, Texas Tech University Press (→ISBN), page 144: Women of wealthy mercantile families asserted their status by imitating the styles from royal courts and helped spread the fashion of corsetry throughout cities and towns all across Europe. In subsequent centuries, the corset was modified ... Corsets and their accoutrements; items made by a maker of corsets, taken collectively. === Anagrams === orycteres, secretory