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What ever happened to the term "brassiere"? This was the only term used to describe this particular garment in my youth but seems to have been replaced (entirely?) by the shortened form "bra." How did that happen? And were we looking at the time?
"Bra" seems to have enlarged in its meaning, at the same time. The rock-protection cover placed on the front ends of some sports cars is called a bra, I think.
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>>>"Bra" seems to have enlarged in its meaning, at the same time. The rock-protection cover placed on the front ends of some sports cars is called a bra, I think. Ya, I think it's because the guys driving these cars are usually boobs. 
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My spouse has one that's dark gray in color, and, while doing the laundry recently, I got in trouble by asking her if she wanted me to wash her charcoal brassiere.
TEd
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Tarpalins have gone away too, now its tarps.
Auto's (rare) but more common than automobiles.
Bicylces have given way to bikes.
In a snap, Photographs became photo's (mostly digital images now, but still called photo's.
Long, long ago, there were preamblulators. (a vehicle for babies when there were still pre-ambulatory) they became prams...
(but strollers, still exist i thing nowdays more often known by brand names!)
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charcoal brassiere
That one was pretty funny.
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her charcoal brassiere.
I will pray for your (long-suffering) spouse.
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Tarps, autos, bikes, photos, prams...
Helen is quite right to connect these shortened forms with the reduction of brassiere to bra. There is a linguistic term for this, which I cannot recall.
Part of what is not cool about these reductions is that "auto" just means "self" and "photo" just means "light" thus they cause confusion to a person trying to figure out what an automaton is (has nothing to do with cars) or what photosensitivity is (has nothing to do with pictures).
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>>thus they cause confusion to a person trying to figure out what an automaton is (has nothing to do with cars) or what photosensitivity is (has nothing to do with pictures).
Ya think?
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worse yet, is photophobia
she says, as she crawls back to her hiding place under the rock, knowning she has once again eluded the securty camera
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Ya think?
It was a LWAG*
Father Steve
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*Lexicological Wild Ass Guess
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