stays

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of stay
2. (plural, plural-only)A corset.

   “Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.”

   ““Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays! Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — or list is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a picture of them.””

   “Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.”

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of stay

name

1. (form-of, plural)plural of Stay