The halter that elevates and holds in place human mammary glands, named for the inventor Phillipelde Brassiere.
Sometime in the mid twentieth century somebody started calling them bras, maybe because they could spell brassiere. Hardly any store advertises or customers ask for brassieres today. It's simply bra.
Sometime in the mid twentieth century somebody started calling them bras, maybe because they could spell brassiere. Hardly any store advertises or customers ask for brassieres today. It's simply bra.
by Richard Black March 30, 2005
by flutterbyboob January 26, 2012
A garment worn under the clothes used to "lift and separate" a female's breasts. The names comes from bracière, the old french word referring to arm protector. The brassiere replaced corsets as the female undergarment around the 1900s, when it was most likely developed by Herminie Cadolle. This term is now archaic however and the garment is simply referred to as a "bra," which is french for "arm". Brassiere is only useful when one needs to refer to bras in code:
Eliza: So Laura do you want to go shopping for brassieres tomorrow?
Laura: Alright, that sounds good.
Mike: What's a brassiere?
Eliza: ... really long gloves. It means arm protector in french.
Laura: Alright, that sounds good.
Mike: What's a brassiere?
Eliza: ... really long gloves. It means arm protector in french.
by whimaway September 23, 2010
A common female experience since many of us spend our days with our tits cruelly funneled into odd shapes and configurations.
My mom passed her brassiere masochism down to all of us who couldn’t wait to have perfect, perky ta-tas just like her’s.
by Dr Bunnygirl January 12, 2019
Cold-weather ear band for the fierce and funny here in Minnesota and nearby northern "Heartland" States. Expression utilized when the wind chill dips into below-Siberian-winter levels.
Commonly shouted about in this manner: "It's cold as hell outside!! Don't forget to put on your ear brassiere!" (Which was a typical quote from this writer's salty and sassy Scorpio mother, whose pseudonym would rightly be: LadyDayFan.)
by VirgoGrrrlie February 7, 2011
Person 1: Hey brassiere. Do you want to hang out later?
Person 2: Of course I do, brassiere. What time?
Person 1: I'll let you know when I decide, brassiere.
Person 2: Thanks, Brassiere!
Person 2: Of course I do, brassiere. What time?
Person 1: I'll let you know when I decide, brassiere.
Person 2: Thanks, Brassiere!
by The Jay Sinner June 7, 2022