square-toed

Adjective

Synonyms: priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical straitlaced strait-laced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced victorian squared-toe

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

exaggeratedly proper“my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts”Synonyms: priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical straitlaced strait-laced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced victorian
having a square toe“square-toed shoes”Synonyms: squared-toe

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Square-toed \Square"-toed`\ (-t[=o]d`), a. Having the toe square. [1913 Webster]

Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]

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