stay-button

English

Noun

stay-button (plural stay-buttons)

1. A button on a corset.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 82)

     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.

Hypernyms

• button