This is practically a steel corset, with a waist varying from about 14in to 16in.

Jêulia Reed wrote that the queen's torso "was covered in bruises the next morning from the workout with her steel corset."

Professor Croci said engineers might have to build a steel corset for the Colosseum, woven into its structure so as to be invisible to visitors.

The tower needed substantial repairs, and a steel "corset" was placed around the tower while repairs were made.

"I think the millennium is about reflections and light," she said, adjusting her steel corset.

A coat covered her steel corset.

He suffered a serious spinal injury which forced him to walk with the aid of sticks, and to wear a steel corset to make him stand straight.

As a piece of sophisticated supplemental equipment, it joined the steel corset that she wears to support her intermittently aching back.

But for the weary traveler, Japanese inns are often as accommodating as a steel corset, as soothing as a Wall Street floor trader.

She was lying flat on an airbed, with tubes going into her in a dozen places and a sort of steel corset surrounding her upper body.