strait-laced

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strait-laced

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Bound with stays. And if women were themselves to frame the bodies of their children in their wombs, as they 4 often endeavour to mend their shapes when they are out, we should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced, or much tampered with.
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@misc{strait_laced_2026,
  title = {strait-laced},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/strait-laced},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}