Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A laco used to draw together the parts of a woman's stays in order to give them the form required.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lace for fastening stays.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lace for fasteningstays .
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Examples
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And, here, the emotions of Mrs Kenwigs became so violent, that Mr Kenwigs was fain to administer hartshorn internally, and vinegar externally, and to destroy a staylace, four petticoat strings, and several small buttons.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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"Don't, my chiel," whispered a buxom staylace dealer in voluminous petticoats, who sat near the woman; "yer good man don't know what he's saying."
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"Serves the husband well be-right," said the staylace vendor.
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"Serves the husband well be-right," said the staylace vendor.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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"Don't, my chiel," whispered a buxom staylace dealer in voluminous petticoats, who sat near the woman; "yer good man don't know what he's saying."
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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More than that, she got a staylace, and, creeping up to her lord, in great stealth tied the lace in a tight knot to one of his long locks of hair, attaching the other end of the lace to the bedpost; for, being tired herself now, she feared she might sleep heavily; and, if her husband should wake, this would be a delicate hint that she had discovered all.
A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884
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Her chaste drapery was of that revived classic order which the world of fashion was again laying aside to re-assume the medival bondage of the staylace; for New Orleans was behind the fashionable world, and Madame Delphine and her daughter were behind New Orleans.
Old Creole Days 1879
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"You frighten me into fits almost; and if you did try to cane me you'd split that coatee of yours all up the back, or break your staylace, or do yourself some mischief, and --"
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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I have taken to the sofa with my staylace cut, and have lain there hours, insensible, with my head over the side, and my hair all down, and my feet I don't know where -- '
Great Expectations 1860
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It consisted -- if you are curious to know -- of pins and needles, and a staylace.
Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850
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