1.
[syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a.
1. Bound with stays.
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Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she
thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are
strait-laced. --Locke.
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2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller.
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3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
strait-laced
adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim,
prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed,
straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced,
straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]