Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A milker of stays or corsets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to make stays.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who makes
stays .
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Examples
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He was an Irishman, about twenty-eight years of age, originally apprenticed to a staymaker in Dublin; then writer to a London attorney; then a Grub Street hack, scribbling for magazines and newspapers.
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I am neither a felonious drysalter returned from exile, an hospital stump-turner, a decayed staymaker, a bankrupt printer, or insolvent debtor, released by act of parliament.
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His first lodgings were at the house of Mr. Norris, a staymaker, in Exeter-street, adjoining
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Paine, the chief writer of the Satanic faction, was a bankrupt staymaker, and a notorious profligate: his pamphlet had only the effect of making the public protest against its abominations; he was prosecuted, was forced to leave the country, and finally died in beggary in America.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various
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He had been a staymaker, a sailor, an exciseman, a teacher, a shopkeeper, and an author, to say nothing of his twofold matrimonial experience.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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A remark which caused the staymaker (if such he was) such huge discomfort that he made off with his wife in the opposite direction, to the time of jeers and cock-crows from the bevy of Vauxhall bucks walking abreast.
Richard Carvel — Volume 06 Winston Churchill 1909
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A remark which caused the staymaker (if such he was) such huge discomfort that he made off with his wife in the opposite direction, to the time of jeers and cock-crows from the bevy of Vauxhall bucks walking abreast.
Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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A remark which caused the staymaker (if such he was) such huge discomfort that he made off with his wife in the opposite direction, to the time of jeers and cock-crows from the bevy of Vauxhall bucks walking abreast.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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He came back and went into his Quaker father's business -- which was that of a staymaker, of all things!
Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin 1900
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A remark which caused the staymaker (if such he was) such huge discomfort that he made off with his wife in the opposite direction, to the time of jeers and cock-crows from the bevy of Vauxhall bucks walking abreast.
Richard Carvel Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1899
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