stay-tapen.
/ˈsteɪteɪp/ A staylace, often used by tailors, etc. as a binding to a fabric. †Also slang (see quot. 1785).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > of specific size > narrow > tape > for binding
lear1382
binding1598
stay-tape1699
bias binding1825
bias tape1884
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor
seamsterc995
tailor1297
parnterc1400
parmenterc1450
pricklouse?a1513
Tom Tailor1575
stitcher1589
scissor man1593
cutter1599
snip1600
snipper1611
shred1616
needleman1621
fashioner1631
snip-snappera1632
sartor1656
nipshred1661
stult1675
cabbage1694
linen-armourer1699
stitch1699
snip-cabbage1708
tire-man1709
knight of the needlea1777
stay-tape1785
schneider1796
needle-jerker1801
skip-louse1807
darzi1809
cross-legs1823
tog-maker1901
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1699 E. Ward London Spy I. iv. 12 To find Canvas, Stay-tape, and Buckram in a Taylors Bill.
1709 W. King Useful Trans. in Philos. Jan.–Feb. 24 I discours'd to him of the Nature..of Staytape, Stifning, and Grogram.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Staytape, a taylor; from that article and its coadjutor buckram, which makes no small figure in the bills of those knights of the needle.
1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband II. 72 The coat alone had cost upwards of eight-and-twenty shillings, what with staytape, and buckram, and the other et cæteras.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxi. 130 The pin-papers, and stay-tapes, which might have been among the wares of his pack.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 461 Stay Tape..is more properly called Stay Binding.
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