corsetry

== English == === Etymology === From corset + -ry. === Noun === corsetry (usually uncountable, plural corsetries) Alternative form of corsetery. 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 ... The collective noticeable portion of a corset. === Anagrams === stercory