stays
SubstantivSubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- //steɪz//
A corset.
Substantiv
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Auch eine Form von stayplural of stay
Substantiv
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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
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Auch eine Form von staythird-person singular simple present indicative of stay