"bodicing" meaning in English

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          "text": "Her bosom—for her summer bodicing / Clung with such loving closeness to her shape / And told as traitor what it should have hid— / Stood with obtrusion’s modest veiling out / Demurely perfect.",
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          "ref": "1955 March 15, “Macy’s M-O-M”, in Daily Independent-Journal, 94th year, number 301, San Rafael, Calif., page 3, column 5:",
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          "ref": "1959 February 20, “Jelleff’s”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald, 82nd year, number 77, Washington, D.C., page A19, column 5:",
          "text": "The bloom of fashion / Figure-following silk, aglow with Spring flowers (species: anonymous) and a new twist in bodicing that’s stunningly becoming! Poppy red or island blue on white; misses’ sizes.",
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          "ref": "1998, Maxine Barry, Dark Desire, London: Scarlet, →ISBN, page 246:",
          "text": "A cunning (but comfortable) piece of stiff bodicing showed off more cleavage than she was used to, and emphasized her narrow waist and curvaceous hips.",
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          "ref": "2001, Moira Butterfield, The Diary of a Young Elizabethan Actor, London: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 56:",
          "text": "I could tell that beneath her skirt frame and her stiff bodicing she was a small thin figure and she was getting old.",
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          "ref": "2022 April 16, Fleur Britten, “Hold on to your corset: Gilded Age brings back the bodice”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, page 27, column 2:",
          "text": "Meanwhile a fixation with Bridgerton’s bodicing been catered for by retailers - Asos reports that it has sold, on average, three corsets every minute this year - while #Regencycore has had 32.9m views on TikTok.",
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