Stays vs Rests - What's the difference?
stays | rests |
(plurale tantum) A corset.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 502:
(stay)
As nouns the difference between stays and rests
is that stays is plural of lang=en while rests is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between stays and rests
is that stays is third-person singular of stay while rests is third-person singular of rest.stays
English
Noun
(head)- Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays .