strait-lace 的定义
strait-laced, strait-lac·ing.
- to bind, confine, or restrain with or as if with laces.
更多strait-lace例句
- 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.