That is the way it was thought people should pose for pictures. Nobody smiled. Perhaps at the time that was considered undignified.
he staid at the roman house!
George V never married Wallis Simpson, his son Edward did (and staid married to her until his death).
Perseverence (determination). Lochinvar does not allow anything to get in his way during his quest to regain his love (Ellen). "He staid not for brake, and he stopp'd not for stone/He swam the Eske River where ford there was none" indicates that no obstacle will prevent his achievement of his goal. This continues to be supported by Lochinvar's trickery in the encounter between Lochinvar and Ellen's father (when Lochinvar appears to insult Ellen and expresses no interest in rekindling a relationship with her).
In 1792 George Washington dismissed engineer/architecture Pierre Charles L' Enfants design for insubordination, so he set up a compititon, two actually, one for the Presidents House and one for the Capital. The winner of the compitition for the White House was James Hoban an Immigrant from Ireland that lived in Charleston, South Carolina until he moved to Washington DC in 1792 where he staid until he died in 1831.
Churchill died in l965. The statesman"s funeral procession was televised and this was done via the (early Bird) or other telecommunications satellites, quite new at the time. Odd for staid old Britishers to add new funerary customs- but in the l90l funeral of Queen Victoria , all logistics commands, so to speak, regarding movements of the body, escorting details, etc were handled by then new-fangled Wireless telegraph.
of settled disposition
1. "Something that is staid is dignified, respectable - possibly even boring, like a staid dinner party that is heavy on the important guests but light on the laughs."(Vocabulary.com)2. "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe"(Virginia Woolf) ^_^
Staid means respectful. quiet and dignified - often applied to "proper" people not given to great shows of emotion.
The horse was staid when it was asleep.
The homonym for "staid" is "stayed."
There are many synonyms for the adjective "staid". One can interchange the word "staid" with words such as "sedate", "serious", "grave", "steady", and "composed".
You should wear staid clothes in the office.
Staid describes somebody who -- has a settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
Staid describes somebody who -- has a settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
toilets
The spelling "staid" means sedate or stodgy.The past tense of the verb to stay is "stayed."
not restless