English Dictionary

busk

/bʌsk/

noun

A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. / (by extension) A corset.

He used a busk to fasten his corset.

意味（1）

A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.

意味（2）

(by extension) A corset.

Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.