bullet bra

English

Patti Page wearing a bullet bra, 1955.

Noun

bullet bra (plural bullet bras)

1. A full-support bra with cups in the shape of a paraboloid of revolution with its axis perpendicular to the breast, invented in the 1940s and popular into the 1960s.

Translations

type of bra

• Finnish: kartiorintaliivit pl