Adjective

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(theater) Not formally staged

*{{quote-news, year=1988, date=April 1, author=Dennis Polkow, title=Hard Stuff, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=That this incomplete work was presented unstaged , without orchestra, and with little attention to dynamics, and that it was sung by singers difficult to understand, generally in poor French (with no libretto or plot synopsis in the program--either in French or English), prevented this from being the revelatory experience it might have been under better circumstances. }}

Adjective

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Not stayed or held back.

*{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=Shapes of Clay, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In vain: your turbulence is unallayed, My flame unquenched; your rioting unstayed ; My life so wretched from your strife to save it That death were welcome did I dare to brave it. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1908, author=Sophie Jewett, title=The Pearl, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=No niggard churl our High Chieftain, But lavishly His gifts are made, Like streams from a moat that flow amain, Or rushing waves that rise unstayed . }}

Not wearing stays.

*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Frederick O'Brien, title=Mystic Isles of the South Seas., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=A little while later, when I came to the dining-room for the first breakfast, I met Lovaina in a blue-figured aahu of muslin and lace, a close-fitting, sweeping nightgown, the single garment that Tahitians wear all day and take off at night, a tunic, or Mother Hubbard, which reveals their figures without disguise, unstayed , unpetticoated. }}