• Stay-lace

    Full definition of stay-lace

    Noun

    stay-lace

    (plural stay-laces)
    1. Alternative form of staylace
      • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, , Chapter VII, section vi:She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace ?
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