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stay-buttons

stay-buttons is the plural of stay-button.

Meaning of stay-button

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)

Questions about stay-buttons

What is stay-buttons the plural of?
Stay-buttons is the plural of stay-button.

Words near stay-buttons in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stay-buttons (page history and authors); stay-button (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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