Examples
“I. i.9 (230,3) [stays me here at home, unkept] [W: Stys] _Sties_ is better than _stays_, and more likely to be Shakespeare's.”
“It's kind of like Menudo," Camp Director Jeff Stone says, "The characters change, but the name stays the same.”
“And the word stays in the room, hovering around and changing the air with its own sick-scented falseness.”
“Mybe he is like a US president, and the title stays with you until death.”
“When the mate was here, he felt sure that some one had crept overboard, and down to what he called the stays under the bowsprit.”
“Powered Games, the company that created the first two Dungeon Siege titles, will also be consulted in order to make sure the new title stays true to the main concepts of the series.”
“In doing so, it made him eligible to receive thousands of dollars a month in per diem payments toward his meals and long-term stays in a Marriott-owned apartment in Chevy Chase, Maryland, as well as flights back to Austin.”
The Huffington Post: SEC overspent on ex-official's expenses: watchdog
“The probe is examining whether Infosys Technologies Ltd. used inexpensive, easy-to-obtain visas meant to cover short-term business visits to the U.S.—instead of the appropriate, but harder to get, work visas—to bring in an unknown number of its employees for longer-term stays, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“Description: The planet Orban, with Precolumbian Teotihuacan-culture antecedents and Aztec type pyramids, has made impressive scientific progress, and brings Sam a naquadah reactor to study; when she demands an instructor, Orban official Kalan surprises SG-1 by saying that he does not know what an instructor is, but 11 year-old Merrin stays on base to teach Carter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stays’.
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
abduct, abducting, abductor, Achaea, Achaean, Achilles, advise, Aegean, Aegean Sea, Aegina, aegis, Aeneas and 713 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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and Bristol fashion
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
sloop, frigate, brigantine, brig, grog, schooner, rig, sail, canvas, jib, forestay, cutter and 150 more...
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the worshipful company of haberdashers
NB: this list being not limited to haberdashery in the strictest sense, but also including items of the milliner's trade, the mercer's trade, and the tailor's trade, it is to be noted that I just r...
button, ribbon, damask, silk, satin, wool, gabardine, felt, trilby, haberdashery, velvet, linen and 138 more...
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the dressing room
vest, jacket, insignia, toga, fan, mantle, ermine, robe, snap, waistcoat, anorak, chaps and 71 more...
Tweets
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CarolBethWood I'd like to know WHY the word "stays" began to be used in the 18th century. I've read "stays" were also ropes (and metal supports?) on a ship to help tie things down...help things STAY put. Because "stays" is used in a time when whaling was an integral process in the garments' production, is it possible there's a connection? Yes, a different garment from a corset (highly stiffened) and a "pair of bodys," worn primarily on the outside...but why the word "stays?" Dec 27, 2012
chained_bear Also "pair of stays." In the plural, a laced underbodice, stiffened by the insertion of strips of whale-bone, metal, or wood, worn by women (sometimes by men) to give shape and support to the figure. The use of the plural is due to the fact that stays were originally made in two pieces laced together. Like a corset, but not quite the same (esp. as worn in the eighteenth century). Feb 13, 2007