What does stays mean?
Stays means plural of stay.
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/steɪz/ · noun
plural of stay.
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.
Use stays when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stays means plural of stay.
Common synonyms include girdle, corset, panty girdle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.
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