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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.
Dagmar had a hard time finding a store that sold 44DDD bras.
brassiere by Richard Black March 30, 2005

brassiere masochism 

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.

arro-brasive 

(adj.) Having a deadly combination of arrogance AND abrasiveness.
Tonya : How about we call Kim to see if she wants to join us for dinner?
Jeff: Kim?! Are you kidding? I don't want to spend one minute more than I have to with that arro-brasive gal. She makes all outings miserable!
that brassiere makes your boobies look mighty fine...
Brassiere by flutterbyboob February 17, 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.
brassiere by whimaway September 25, 2010
-HoMyGod! Look at the size of that thing!
-Yeah it's pretty bassive