Stay

The word stay has more than one meaning:-

An item of ship's gear: see nautical term and stays (nautical).
Stay = bone; steel in clothes see: Bone (corsetry)

Stays, (the plural in the singular)

A type of corset, handmade and all corsets before 1860 was stays, because 'corset' is a French word.

The word stays, which redirects here, refers to a court order requiring that a party refrain from a certain action until the court has time to consider a matter.

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