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Strait-Laced
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (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.