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stay-tape|ˈsteɪteɪp|
[f. stay n.2]
A staylace, often used by tailors, etc. as a binding to a fabric. † Also slang (see quot. 1785).
1698E. Ward Lond. Spy iv. (1706) 91 To find Canvas, Stay-Tape, and Buckram in a Taylors Bill. 1709[W. King] Usef. Trans. Philos. Jan. & Feb. 24, I discours'd to him of the Nature..of Staytape, Stifning, and Grogram. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Staytape, a taylor; from that article and its coadjutor buckram, which makes no small figure in the bills of those knights of the needle. 1801tr. Gabrielli's Mysterious Husb. II. 72 The coat alone had cost upwards of eight-and-twenty shillings, what with staytape, and buckram, and the other et cæteras. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. xxi. 130 The pin-papers, and stay-tapes, which might have been among the wares of his pack. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 461 Stay Tape..is more properly called Stay Binding. |