brassiere

Examples

• All

• You will get your jacket and brassiere back after the class.

  Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006)

• I could see that she was not wearing an undershirt but a womanly brassiere.

  Fiction book (1997)

• You can take the brassiere off, too.

  Just Go with It (2011)

• This brassiere is killing me.

  Wild Wild West (1999)

• What I really want is a brassiere.

  A Warm December (1973)

• Hello, dear, this is the brassiere department at Marshalls calling.

  Fun Size (2012)

• Fitting her inside her brassiere took another five minutes, as did getting her into her ivory-colored dress.

  Fiction book (1997)

• "What are you looking at?" she hissed as she slipped a brassiere strap off her shoulder, and he fled.

  Fiction book (2002)

• On the bed: faded blue jeans, black pantyhose, a black brassiere, a gray sweatshirt.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Ola herself worked as a seamstress on the assembly line for the Lovable Brassiere Company in Atlanta.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

B

bra

vsbrassiere

274 1.0

A piece of clothing women wear under their clothes to support their breasts

focuses on support and does not stress covering

U

uplift

vsbrassiere

1 6.0

A bra that holds the breasts up to give a better shape

provides general support without specifically aiming to change shape or appearance

O

over-the-shoulder boulder holder

vsbrassiere

• NSFW

9.9

A piece of underwear that supports a woman's breasts

is the neutral standard term rather than a joking slang label

How Supportive

underwire

5 4.6

brassiere

21 4.2

braless

• NSFW

1 7.5

Surface Forms

Etymology