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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
bodice ripping en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually) Alternative form of bodice-ripping.
Tracks of the Armies portrayed more than suggestive bodice ripping: Volck's subject here was the aftermath of a rape (fig. 8).
1993, Judy L. Larson, Cynthia Payne, Graphic arts & the South, page 168:After much bosom heaving and bodice ripping, Diana becomes conscious of her love for the “lawless savage,” and she decides to stay with him in their love oasis.
2013, Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, page 93:Even a vampire enjoys a little bodice ripping now and again.
2011, Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel:
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