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straitlaced |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a. 1. Bound with stays. Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. --Locke. 2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller. 3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: straitlaced adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {prissy}, {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straightlaced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]
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