stomacher
- n garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century
- And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a .
- Cornelius Vanderbilt was there, in hair ribbon and diamond stomacher.
- In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer.