strait-lace
狭缝式,紧身衣,狭长的项链,狭长型
Definitions
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strait-laced, strait-lac·ing.
- : to bind, confine, or restrain with or as if with laces.
Examples
They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two.
More items came in time, as funding was available, like a slit-and-lace-up jacket and a line of boxer underwear.
About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.
And no amount of fancy lace could ever have competed with the joy of sleep.
One 1918 example, in wispy silk chiffon and lace is even trimmed in mink!
On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.
Ramona had covered the box with white cloth, and the lace altar-cloth thrown over it fell in folds to the floor.
She rose impatiently and bathed her eyes before ringing for the maid to lace her for dinner—it was long past tea-time.
She still wore the shabby lace and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head.