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- noun Plural form of
staymaker .
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Fancy my agony; literally accessory to handing ices to milliners 'apprentices and staymakers; and when the wretch commenced quadrilling it, he dos-a-dos'd me up against a fat soap-boiler's wife, in filthy three-turned-and-dyed common satin. "
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various
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