STRAIT-LACED

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Bound with stays. Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke.

2.
a.

Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] Fuller.

3.
a.

Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.