stays

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Noun [edit]

stays

  1. Plural form of stay
  2. (plural only) A corset.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 502:
      Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.

Verb [edit]

stays

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stay.

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