Stay-lace
Full definition of stay-lace
Noun
stay-lace
(plural stay-laces)- 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 ?