corselet vs layer

corselet

noun
  • A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs. 

  • An entire suit of armor, made up chiefly of the breastplate and backpiece worn with a headpiece and with a gorget, pauldrons, vambraces, gauntlets, and tassets attached. 

  • The thorax of an insect. 

  • Armor for the body, for example a breastplate and backpiece taken together. 

  • A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette. 

layer

noun
  • An item of clothing worn under or over another. 

  • One of the items in a hierarchy. 

  • A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager. 

  • A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum. 

  • A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth. 

  • A single thickness of some material covering a surface. 

  • A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs. 

  • A hen kept to lay eggs. 

  • one in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another. 

verb
  • To arrange in layers. 

  • To cut or divide into layers. 

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