stays

See also: Stays and staþs

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /steɪz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪz
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Noun

stays

  1. plural of stay

Noun

stays pl (plural only)

  1. A corset.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IX:
      (p. 502):
      Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 20:
      “Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays! Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — or list is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a picture of them.”
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 181:
      Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.

Verb

stays

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stay

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