(I think this garment is called a stomacher, but I am not sure, as I have never liked to ask.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of a Pilgrimage] Reference

And that center front piece in the bodice? that's a "stomacher".    From Wordnik.com.  [Diegogarcity, Fake Bolero Edition - A Dress A Day] Reference

A nice patterned brocade for the stomacher, um, plastron?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Many Ways? - A Dress A Day] Reference

I am likely to faint from the weight, and this stomacher is too tight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference

The diamonds on her stomacher would embroider a full-sized carpet-bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Street] Reference

I really like the idea of a stomacher. something we don't often see in the regency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regency Fashion ~ May] Reference

Just wondering if the plastron is the modern reincarnation of the colonial stomacher?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Many Ways? - A Dress A Day] Reference

The tight stomacher pleating on the Duchess' dress really reminds me of Cindy McCain's dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cindy and Laura at the convention.] Reference

Anna was dressed in a deep pink open mantua over wide hoops, with silver embroidered robings and stomacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartless]

She bit through a lump of the handkerchief he had tied round her neck for a stomacher -- and then kissed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

One of the most popular corsets of the time was the corset and stomacher shown in the accompanying illustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Her dress was a plain black silk, made high at the neck, and with an open stomacher, disclosing an aggravating bit of white lace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference

Why, when she felt the first touch of his finger stroking her spine above her stomacher, did she have the impulse to confess all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tutoring Lady Jane]

She was dressed, he realized suddenly, very fashionably in a form-fitting sack dress with dazzling white petticoat and stomacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartless]

She was wearing no high coronet of diamonds, she was encased in no gemmed stomacher, and they had girt her with no jewelled sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos] Reference

Court dresses must be wide-skirted and hooped and worn with a stomacher and hair plumes and lappets, in the fashion of a generation ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly Married]

She pushed back her hair and Thomas became instantly aware of her magnificent breasts, pushed into mounds well above the edge of her stomacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference

The Sister Dina was examined in this way; and it was ascertained that she had nothing under her gown except a chemise and a simple linen stomacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference

The full sleeves tied but halfway up his long arms, his own shirtsleeves billowing below, and the gaping stomacher hung across his chest like embroidered armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference

And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

"It is the latest London fashion," muttered Prudence, "that hath come to these outlandish parts, where, thank the Lord, our stay will not be much longer than the stomacher.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

From the stomacher a band of jewels on gold tissue descended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference

Castleton's superb diamond stomacher, just reset by Storr & Mortimer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

A floral stomacher brooch was meant to rest neatly against an Edwardian ballgown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luxist] Reference

She had large shoulders, a high, full stomacher, and her cheeks were an apple-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Privy Seal His Last Venture] Reference

Besides her diamond tiara she had a stomacher of brilliants, and diamond ear-rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference

However, she weakened, she herself feeling so interested in the tale that she could detect her heart beating under her stomacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1] Reference