Brassiere

[Sarah]

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or thelike, and worn to support the breasts.

[Sarah]

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.

[Sarah]

boobie holder

[Sarah]

A garment worn under the clothes used to lift

[Sonia]

A brassiere is a bra. Nuff said.