| 单词 | strait-lacing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrait-lacing strait-lacing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > fastening garteringa1529 cingling1603 strait-lacing1636 buttoninga1645 succincture1894 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] restraintive1526 limitative1530 circumscribing1571 restrictive1580 continent1598 restricting1606 confininga1616 contractive1624 strait-lacing1636 limiting1656 cohibitive1668 contracting1765 limitary1822 restrictionary1828 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] > restricting or limiting narroweOE restraintive1526 limitative1530 circumscribing1571 restrictive1580 restraining1597 continent1598 restricting1606 confininga1616 contractive1624 strait-lacing1636 limiting1656 cohibitive1668 contracting1765 restrictory1776 limitary1822 restrictionary1828 scopeless1882 1636 W. Durham in Ann. Dubrensia sig. B3v Then they repine at their streight-lacing shore, Prohibiting their passage to his dore. 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 80 Endeavouring by strait-lacing to be as slender in the middle as the Strand-May-pole is tall in its height. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §11 I have seen so many Instances of Children receiving great harm from strait-lacing. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 59 I denounce against all strait-Laceing, Squeezing for a Shape, till you mold my boy's head like a Sugar-loaf. 1776 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1778) 313 The strait lacing of the English ladies. 1811 C. Lamb Theatralia in Reflector 2 300 How cruelly this operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramped and pressed down to the measure of a strait-lacing actuality, may be judged from [etc.]. 1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. xxx A course of straight-lacing and cool diet was bringing her a little more into compass. < as lemmas |
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