"corsetery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1851, State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division---Third Department, page 49",
          "text": "The Company also agrees to give the corsetiere the benefit of it's own sales plans and training of salesmanship and corsetery. At the same time, the corsetiere agrees to purchase a demonstration line, which she uses in her own work ..."
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          "ref": "1920, The Silent Partner, volume 16, page 742",
          "text": "The innovation of the moment in corsetery is BIENJOLIE GRECIAN-TRECO REDELACD Corsets\nThe all year round corset for the girls and women who lead active lives, and insist on ease, comfort and cleanliness as well as ..."
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          "ref": "2001, Valerie Steele, The Corset: A Cultural History, Yale University Press, page 67",
          "text": "Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry."
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          "ref": "2007, Daniel Delis Hill, As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising, Texas Tech University Press, page 144",
          "text": "Women of wealthy mercantile families asserted their status by imitating the styles from royal courts and helped spread the fashion of corsetry throughout cities and towns all across Europe. In subsequent centuries, the corset was modified ..."
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          "ref": "2018, Cora Harrington, In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear, and Love Lingerie, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The modern bra, as a concept, has its origins in corsetry (so does shapewear, which you'll learn more about in chapter 3).",
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          "ref": "1921, The Corset and Underwear Review, page 96:",
          "text": "I have been made painfuly aware of the angles of a slender figure left without the help of that wisp of corsetry that would make all the difference in the world. I have walked behind a lady with fleshy shoulders, even as you have done , and ...",
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          "ref": "1943, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 172:",
          "text": "Q. What kind of merchandise do you sell? A. Ladies specialties such as hosiery, underwear, corsetery, gloves.",
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          "ref": "1998, Sorabji M. Rutnagur, The Indian Textile Journal:",
          "text": "[...] fields of textile applications such as lace and curtains, sports and casual wear, lingerie and corsetery and in technical textiles such as automotive interior packing, [...]",
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          "ref": "2007, Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 37:",
          "text": "Revealingly, eating disorders were related to (or aggravated by) the wearing of corsetry. Consequently, corsetry was closely linked to the debilitated feminine ideal: […]",
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          "ref": "2019, Sali Hughes, Our Rainbow Queen: A Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and Her Colorful Wardrobe, Plume, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": ".[...] the details of their working relationship should remain suitably discreet. In 2018, June Kenton, director of Rigby & Peller, the long-time suppliers of corsetery and lingerie to the Queen, [...]",
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          "text": "The innovation of the moment in corsetery is BIENJOLIE GRECIAN-TRECO REDELACD Corsets\nThe all year round corset for the girls and women who lead active lives, and insist on ease, comfort and cleanliness as well as ..."
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          "text": "Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry."
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          "text": "Revealingly, eating disorders were related to (or aggravated by) the wearing of corsetry. Consequently, corsetry was closely linked to the debilitated feminine ideal: […]",
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          "text": ".[...] the details of their working relationship should remain suitably discreet. In 2018, June Kenton, director of Rigby & Peller, the long-time suppliers of corsetery and lingerie to the Queen, [...]",
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