Hypertext Webster Gateway: "straitlaced"
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) 1.7 (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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