staylace

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a lace used to fasten a pair of stays or a corset

   Feeling faint, she cut her staylace rather than wait for help.

A compound of stay + lace. Here stay refers to one of the stiff supports in a fitted bodice and, in the plural, to the corset-like garment itself. A staylace was the cord drawn through eyelets to tighten and fasten those stays.

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