英语词汇“a pair of stays”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. plural. (Also a pair of stays.) A laced underbodice, stiffened by the insertion of strips of whale-bone (sometimes of metal or wood) worn by women (sometimes by men) to give shape and support to the figure: = corset n. 2.The use of the plural is due to the fact that stays were originally (as they still are usually) made in two pieces laced together.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > corset

busk1581

a pair of stays1608

bodicea1625

stay1731

corset1795

belt1818

foundation garment1927

foundation1939

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > part which covers body

a pair of stays1608

1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. A3^v Stay, (a thing few women can do..therefore they had need weare stayes).

1682 London Gaz. No. 1762/4 A pair of hair-coloured Sattin Stays.

1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 18 With nothing on but her Stays, and her under scanty quilted Petticoat.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iii. 22 Come, unlace your Steas.

1714 J. Gay Araminta in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 90 The rich Stays her Taper Shape confine.

1831 Ann. Reg., Chron. 26 Apr. 67/1 The Jury..returned a verdict, ‘that the deceased died of apoplexy, produced by her stays being too tightly laced.’

1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 231 Her improved appearance in a pair of stays and a gown.

1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 267 The men's custom of sometimes wearing stays.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iii. 23 Susan..had suddenly become so very upright that she seemed to have put an additional bone in her stays.

1867 J. Hatton Tallants iv His enemies said he wore stays and slept in gloves.

1885 Truth 28 May 850/2 The stays..displace the bust, pushing the bosom up almost to the neck.

in figurative context.1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxxxv. 47 But Virtue's self, with all her tightest laces, Has not the natural stays of strict old age.1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 Oct. (1939) 257 Beauvais is called the Pucelle, yet..she wears no stays—I mean, has no fortifications.1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 67 The slight she-slips of loyal blood,..Strait-laced, but all-too-full in bud For puritanic stays.

单词	a pair of stays
释义	> as lemmas a pair of stays a. plural. (Also a pair of stays.) A laced underbodice, stiffened by the insertion of strips of whale-bone (sometimes of metal or wood) worn by women (sometimes by men) to give shape and support to the figure: = corset n. 2.The use of the plural is due to the fact that stays were originally (as they still are usually) made in two pieces laced together. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > corset busk1581 a pair of stays1608 bodicea1625 stay1731 corset1795 belt1818 foundation garment1927 foundation1939 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > parts of > part which covers body a pair of stays1608 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. A3^v Stay, (a thing few women can do..therefore they had need weare stayes). 1682 London Gaz. No. 1762/4 A pair of hair-coloured Sattin Stays. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 18 With nothing on but her Stays, and her under scanty quilted Petticoat. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iii. 22 Come, unlace your Steas. 1714 J. Gay Araminta in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 90 The rich Stays her Taper Shape confine. 1831 Ann. Reg., Chron. 26 Apr. 67/1 The Jury..returned a verdict, ‘that the deceased died of apoplexy, produced by her stays being too tightly laced.’ 1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 231 Her improved appearance in a pair of stays and a gown. 1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 267 The men's custom of sometimes wearing stays. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iii. 23 Susan..had suddenly become so very upright that she seemed to have put an additional bone in her stays. 1867 J. Hatton Tallants iv His enemies said he wore stays and slept in gloves. 1885 Truth 28 May 850/2 The stays..displace the bust, pushing the bosom up almost to the neck. in figurative context.1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxxxv. 47 But Virtue's self, with all her tightest laces, Has not the natural stays of strict old age.1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 Oct. (1939) 257 Beauvais is called the Pucelle, yet..she wears no stays—I mean, has no fortifications.1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 67 The slight she-slips of loyal blood,..Strait-laced, but all-too-full in bud For puritanic stays. extracted from stayn.² < as lemmas
随便看	θ204254 θ204255 θ204256 θ204257 θ204258 θ204259 θ20426 θ204260 θ204261 θ204262 θ204263 θ204264 θ204265 θ204266 θ204267 θ204268 θ204269 θ20427 θ204270 θ204271 θ204272 θ204273 θ204274 θ204275 θ204276

> as lemmas