stays

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See also: Stays and staþs

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /steɪz/
Rhymes: -eɪz
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Noun

stays

plural of stay

Noun

stays pl (plural only)

A corset.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book ix:
  (p. 502):
  Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 181:
  Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.

Verb

stays

third-person singular simple present indicative of stay

Anagrams

Tsays, say'st, sayst

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