BODICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bodice mean? 

• BODICE (noun)
  The noun BODICE has 1 sense:

1. part of a dress above the waist

  Familiarity information: BODICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Part of a dress above the waist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bodice" is a kind of...):

top (a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips)

Meronyms (parts of "bodice"):

plastron (the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt)

Holonyms ("bodice" is a part of...):

dress; frock (a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice)

 Context examples 

There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I had only time, in dressing, to glance at the solid furniture, the framed pieces of work (done, I supposed, by Steerforth's mother when she was a girl), and some pictures in crayons of ladies with powdered hair and bodices, coming and going on the walls, as the newly-kindled fire crackled and sputtered, when I was called to dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)