unbusk

English

Etymology

un- +‎ busk

Verb

unbusk (third-person singular simple present unbusks, present participle unbusking, simple past and past participle unbusked)

  1. (transitive, rare) To remove a busk (corset, or its stiffening strip) from.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Madison Cawein to this entry?)
      Unbusk, unbusk me, tire-maids, / Now it hath come to lie. / Comb down my locks in simple braids, / A simple maid am I.
    • 2011, Evelyn Prentis, A Nurse in Time (page 304)
      She told us later that she thought of things like loosening laces and unbusking corsets but though they all sounded splendid in theory, in practice there seemed to be all sorts of snags.
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