A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.198, Penguin

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.