Meaning of unbusk | Babel Free

Definitions

To remove a busk (corset, or its stiffening strip) from.

rare, transitive

Examples

“Unbusk, unbusk me, tire-maids, / Now it hath come to lie. / Comb down my locks in simple braids, / A simple maid am I.”

“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.”

CEFR level