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staymaker

noun

Etymology

From stay + maker.

  1. inherited from maker
  2. compounded as staymaker — “stay + maker”

Definitions

  1. Someone who makes stays.

    • The author of these Memoirs informs us, that Miss Reay was the daughter of a staymaker near Leicester-Fields; and at the age of fourteen was placed as an apprentice to Mrs. Silver, a mantua-maker, in George's Court, Clerkenwell […]
    • Her Paine: rebellious Staymaker; unkempt; who feels that he, a single Needleman, did by his 'Common Sense' Pamphlet, free America....

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