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staymaker

staymaker noun: someone who makes stays.

Noun

staymaker (plural staymakers)

  1. Someone who makes stays.
    • The author of these Memoirs informs us, that Miss Reay was the daughter of a staymaker near Leicester-Fields; and at the age of fourteen was placed as an apprentice to Mrs. Silver, a mantua-maker, in George's Court, Clerkenwell […]1779, The critical review, or annals of literature, volume 48, page 80
    • Her Paine: rebellious Staymaker; unkempt; who feels that he, a single Needleman, did by his 'Common Sense' Pamphlet, free America....1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

Forms of staymaker

pluralstaymakers

Origin of staymaker

From stay + maker.

Questions about staymaker

What does staymaker mean?
Staymaker means someone who makes stays.
What part of speech is staymaker?
Staymaker is a noun.
What is the plural of staymaker?
The plural of staymaker is staymakers.

Words near staymaker in the dictionary

  1. stayings
  2. staylace
  3. staylaces
  4. stayless
  5. staylessness
  6. staymaker
  7. staymakers
  8. staymaking
  9. Stayman
  10. Staymans
  11. stayne

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