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Noun(1) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts

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(1) Belly dancers wear a tight garment similar to a brassiere , and wide, flowing trousers gathered at the ankle.(2) Even before the corset or the brassiere , in the Middle Ages pouches sewn in to dresses could give uplift.(3) That's right, a brassiere to conceal a hidden handgun.(4) The Miller system also included a bosom support for stout women; it could be classed as the first brassiere .(5) He said her brassiere was showing and he took off his shirt and put it on her.(6) This was when the women's liberation movement was in full swing, and the brassiere was regarded as an offending piece of ├ö├ç├┐body machinery├ö├ç├û, designed by men and foisted on women.(7) This track, with its lilting verses and gently lifting (sounds like a brassiere , but it isn't) accordion phrase, stays in my head, tranquilizing me.(8) Passing by with my daughter, we decided to buy two brassieres and a swimsuit.(9) I stacked my brassieres in two stacks (sports bras & others) to the left of the top cube.(10) From September 2002 to September of this year, Chinese imports of cotton brassieres shot up 53 percent.(11) Women bunged their brassieres on the brazier as a symbolic gesture - they weren't going to be reined in anymore by men or by a bit of frilly elastic.(12) I mean, I don't think of shirts when I'm forced to stare at adverts of those newfangled strapless anti-gravity brassieres that hang on to what they are supposed to through pure force of will.(13) A well-endowed model in an advertisement was used to sell virtually everything: movies, cars, fruit, coffee, brassieres and postcards.(14) One long-gone department store in Seoul used to have a male clerk selling brassieres .(15) Tourists shamed them with their stares and cameras, and all too soon they had to ask friends to bring brassieres from shops in Jakarta.(16) Also this week, the United States said it would limit imports from China of knit fabrics, brassieres and dressing gowns because sales had been climbing in the U.S. market.