bodice

That's exactly when Harlequin expanded into the US, causing the entire bodice-ripper paperback market to explode worldwide.

There was an article a while back about how the driving demographic for the sales of the Kindle is women who do not want everyone to know that they're reading bodice-ripper romance novels.

Or reading bodice-rippers literally written from a template (you don’t put out five novels a year without some effort toward developing efficiency ).

Without the bodice you would be out of balance while holding the dumbbell.

You have all the real life Harvey Weinsteins and Andrew Tates, and you have all the bodice-ripper fiction, and probably lots of other stuff.

Where your hands meet, hold a dumbell the mass of your bodice.

I can say with confidence that I've never browsed into a bodice ripper.

With rivulets of iridescent purple glue spilled like blood from the top of his shaved head and a silky lime feathered bodice, Bowery appears to be an ostrich in human form.

I strongly prefer very hard SF, so I was never Gibson's target audience anyway, but I find it just completely misses me, I might as well be reading a bodice ripper or special forces yarn.

With her wild flouncing tresses and flouncy taupe colored taffeta bodice, the young woman made quick work whipping her mascarpone to the delicate tune of the peony, bottlebrush, and wisteria inspired Decoupage Florentine style music box remarkably given her elevated progesterone levels.

It certainly tells us a bit about you, but isn't particularly definitive - do you read lightweight trash like Dan Brown, do you prefer mysteries, bodice-rippers, fantasies, war novels, or the complexities of writers like Eco?

Bright pads with toggles crossed behind the knees, Bodice of fitted tungsten, pliable straps; His shield as round and rich as moons in spring; His sword's haft parked between sheaves of grey obsidian From which a lucid blade stood out, leaf-shaped, adorned With running spirals.

Shirts, T-Shirts and bodice waistlines / "darts" are almost trivial once you can follow a straight line.

Remember a "bodice" has different constraints than something designed to be worn on the outside.

But, while Georgette Heyer invented the Regency romance, hers are not "bodice-rippers".

"infamous army" by Georgette Heyer (she pretty much invented the bodice-ripper genre which Barbara Cartland drove a long way afterward) was on the reading list at cranwell college.