stay-button

noun

A button on a corset.

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Meanings

nounstay-button (plural stay-buttons)

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)
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APA

stay-button. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stay-button

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“stay-button.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stay-button. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stay-button,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stay-button.

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