stays
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stays
Noun[edit]
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[ndrew] 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[edit]
stays
- third-person singular simple present indicative of stay