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whalebone
noun
whale·bone ˈ(h)wāl-ˌbōn 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web In George’s house, everything relates to whaling: a whalebone before the entrance, baleen above the door, pictures of whales on the walls in the living room and stacks of whale science books on shelves and side tables. 
Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022 Panniers, those underskirt structures that exaggerated hips, were a 16th-century version of shapewear; so were steel or whalebone and canvas corsets. New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 Made using materials like whalebone and metal, corsets contained and constrained women’s bodies, keeping them in place (literally and figuratively). Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021 The town’s oldest buildings are clustered together near the Utqiaġvik Presbyterian Church, marked with a whalebone sign dated 1898. Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021 Later iterations included girdles and corsets made of whalebone, iron and leather. Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 8 May 2021 Traditionally fashioned with metal or whalebone stays and laced up the back, the waist-cinching, bust-elevating garment has cycled in and out of style for centuries. Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2021 That particular task was messy; the harvesting of whale parts — oil to light lamps and use in cosmetics, baleen for whalebone corsets, tongue for food — was hard labor. New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021 Mark Tetpon makes original hoop masks that tell Iñupiaq stories in ivory, wood, fossilized whalebone and baleen. Danielle Duclos, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2020 See More
Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022 Panniers, those underskirt structures that exaggerated hips, were a 16th-century version of shapewear; so were steel or whalebone and canvas corsets. New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 Made using materials like whalebone and metal, corsets contained and constrained women’s bodies, keeping them in place (literally and figuratively). Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021 The town’s oldest buildings are clustered together near the Utqiaġvik Presbyterian Church, marked with a whalebone sign dated 1898. Wyatt Williams, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021 Later iterations included girdles and corsets made of whalebone, iron and leather. Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 8 May 2021 Traditionally fashioned with metal or whalebone stays and laced up the back, the waist-cinching, bust-elevating garment has cycled in and out of style for centuries. Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2021 That particular task was messy; the harvesting of whale parts — oil to light lamps and use in cosmetics, baleen for whalebone corsets, tongue for food — was hard labor. New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021 Mark Tetpon makes original hoop masks that tell Iñupiaq stories in ivory, wood, fossilized whalebone and baleen. Danielle Duclos, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of whalebone was in the 15th century Phrases Containing whalebone
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