Stay-button

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A button on a corset.

    "In the servant girl's room there was a stay-button stuck in a crack of the floor, and in another crack some beads and a long needle."

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"In the servant girl's room there was a stay-button stuck in a crack of the floor, and in another crack some beads and a long needle."

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