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staies

staies is the obsolete spelling of stays.

Meaning of stays

Noun

stays pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A corset.
    • Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.(p. 502)

Questions about staies

What is staies the obsolete spelling of?
Staies is the obsolete spelling of stays.

Words near staies in the dictionary

  1. staider
  2. staidest
  3. staidly
  4. staidness
  5. staidnesses
  6. staies
  7. Staiger
  8. Staigers
  9. stail
  10. stails
  11. stain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staies (page history and authors); stays (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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