Assertion: corset | /r/CapableOf | shape the body
Facets:
value: by a busk in front
type: MANNER
value: by means of whalebone sticks
type: MANNER
value: into the fashionable form
type: MANNER
value: to a desired figure
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Tightlacing is the practice of wearing a corset that has been tightly laced to shape the body to a desired figure.
text: / knickers /bloomers, worn with an open crotch until around 1900 corset shaping the body into the fashionable form by means of whalebone sticks and a busk in front