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What does whalebone mean?

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Noun
  1. The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets
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Truss a few starlets into whalebone corsets and swathe them in yards of dimity.
Whales and dolphins were also hunted for their meat, as well as other useful products such as whalebone and fat.
Philippa survived the murder attempt, when Walter stabbed her, because her whalebone corset protected her.
The favourite shaping material of stays was whalebone, cut into thin strips and sewn in a fan pattern to make the torso appear rounder.
Although baleen is commonly called whalebone, it is not bone but keratin, the same material as your nails and hair.
As I pushed through the last strings of a job lot of whalebone corsets, I was finally able to come upon the books.

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