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Date: 1800-1900
Language: French
Origin: '(part of a piece of clothing covering) the top part of the body', from Old French cors; CORSE

corsage

 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes and Fashion
cor‧sage [countable]
DC a group of small flowers that a woman fastens to her clothes on a special occasion such as a wedding
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