stays
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, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book ix:(p. 502):
- Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 181:
- Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.
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Verb
stays
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stay
Anagrams
- Tsays, say'st, sayst