stays

• IPA^(key): /steɪz/
• Rhymes: -eɪz

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stays

1. plural of stay

stays pl (plural only)

1. 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.

stays

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stay

• Tsays, say'st, sayst