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▪ I. staylace, n.|ˈsteɪleɪs|
[f. stay n.2 + lace n.]
A lace or cord used to draw together a woman's stays or bodice.
1720Swift Proposal Use Irish Manuf. Misc. 1735 V. 204, I should rejoice to see a Stay-Lace from England be thought scandalous, and become a Topick for Censure. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 323 Pins and needles, stay-laces, and such small articles as are light to carry. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 460/2 Stay laces..are otherwise called Stay-cord, and are made of both cotton and linen.
Comb.1889Hardy Mayor Casterbr. i, A buxom staylace dealer.
▪ II. ˈstaylace, v.
[f. staylace n.]
trans. To lace up with staylaces. Hence ˈstaylaced ppl. a.
1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 368 The stay-laced dandy. 1832J. C. H[are] in Philol. Mus. I. 678 Every departure from idiom, every attempt to staylace the language of polisht conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy. |