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unbusk en · VERB

Etymology

un- + busk

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To remove a busk (corset, or its stiffening strip) from.
   • Unbusk, unbusk me, tire-maids, / Now it hath come to lie. / Comb down my locks in simple braids, / A simple maid am I.
   • She told us later that she thought of things like loosening laces and unbusking corsets but though they all sounded splendid in theory, in practice there seemed to be all sorts of snags. 2011, Evelyn Prentis, A Nurse in Time, page 304:

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