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say it: BUH-styur
bustier is a noun meaning "a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress". It is pronounced /ˈbʌstjɚ/ — BUH-styur. It carries one recorded sense.
a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bustier come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.