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stay-button

stay-button noun: a button on a corset.

Noun

stay-button (plural stay-buttons)

  1. 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 of stay-button

pluralstay-buttons

Questions about stay-button

What does stay-button mean?
Stay-button means a button on a corset.
What part of speech is stay-button?
Stay-button is a noun.
What is the plural of stay-button?
The plural of stay-button is stay-buttons.

Words near stay-button in the dictionary

  1. stay-at-homers
  2. stay-at-homes
  3. stay-away
  4. stay-behind
  5. stay-behinds
  6. stay-button
  7. stay-buttons
  8. stay-cation
  9. stay-cations
  10. stay-dry
  11. stay-lace

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