Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stomacher"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Stomacher
(Isa. 3:24), an article of female attire, probably some sort of
girdle around the breast.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stomacher \Stom"ach*er\, n.
1. One who stomachs.
2. (? or ?) An ornamental covering for the breast, worn
originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were
often richly decorated.
A stately lady in a diamond stomacher. --Johnson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stomacher
n : garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material
worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century
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