stay-button en · NOUN
Meanings
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A button on a corset.
In the servant girl's room there was a stay-button stuck in a crack of the floor, and in another crack some beads and a long needle.
1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 82)
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stay-buttons | Number=Plur | lexicographic |