English
Noun
en-noun
- A cloth garment, usually embellished with embroidery or jewelry, worn over the stomach from the 15th to the 18th centuries particularly by women.
#: Of these older people many wear clothing reminiscent in some detail of home--an embroidered waistcoat or stomacher.
- A brooch, often in three parts, worn over the stomach or chest in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
See also
pedialite
References
The Book of the Prophet Isiah Chapter 3 Verse 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens Chapter VII She is a fine old lady, handsome, stately, wonderfully neat, and has such a back and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate, nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised.
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