STOMACHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stomacher mean? 

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

1. garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOMACHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

garment (an article of clothing)

 Context examples 

Every letter from her is read forty times over; her compliments to all friends go round and round again; and if she does but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher, or knit a pair of garters for her grandmother, one hears of nothing else for a month.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to have cost me my life; for, one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the governess who attended Glumdalclitch very officiously lifted me up, to place me in the boat: but I happened to slip through her fingers, and should infallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if, by the luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the good gentlewoman’s stomacher; the head of the pin passing between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by the middle in the air, till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)