英和和英

名詞

staymaker (複数形 staymakers)

1. Someone who makes stays.
   • 1779, The critical review, or annals of literature‎^[1], volume 48, page 80:

     The author of these Memoirs informs us, that Miss Reay was the daughter of a staymaker near Leicester-Fields; and at the age of fourteen was placed as an apprentice to Mrs. Silver, a mantua-maker, in George's Court, Clerkenwell […]

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Chapman and Hall Limited, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book または page number):

     Her Paine: rebellious Staymaker; unkempt; who feels that he, a single Needleman, did by his 'Common Sense' Pamphlet, free America....

   • 1847, “A soirée in a porter's lodge”, in Chambers's Journal‎^[2], volume 8, page 90:

     The young man bowed, and very politely led the way to a little back parlour, where the staymaker took a seat, and in a very slow and stately manner gave him numberless recommendations concerning the size, colour, and shape of her chaussure.

   • 2009, Lynn Sorge-English, “Constructing Identity: The Staymaker Forms the Lady in Eighteenth-Century Britain”, in Historical Perspectives on Social Identities‎^[3], page 79:

     This entry from the diary of Richard Viney, Staymaker, is one of many in which he mentions the physicality of staymaking in the same breath with sociability with his clients.