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strait-waistcoat

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A garment for the body made of canvas or similar strong textile material, and so shaped as to lace up behind and fit closely.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as strait-jacket.

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Examples

  • He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008

  • The young clergyman in the black strait-waistcoat, who occupied the middle seat of the carriage, expounded in his peculiar pulpit-accent to the young and lovely Reverend Mrs. Crinoline, who occupied the opposite middle-seat,

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • Brittany, has been seized, according to our prophecy: he was brought before the Prefect of Police yesterday, and his insanity being proved beyond a doubt, he has been consigned to a strait-waistcoat at Charenton.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Crawling animals, skipping animals, and humming, flying animals; all three will have at you at once; and one night nearly drove me into a strait-waistcoat.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • If any woman deserved a strait-waistcoat, — it was my Lady Lyndon; and I have known people in my time manacled, and with their heads shaved, in the straw, who had not committed half the follies of that foolish, vain, infatuated creature.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • Brittany, has been seized, according to our prophecy: he was brought before the Prefect of Police yesterday, and his insanity being proved beyond a doubt, he has been consigned to a strait-waistcoat at Charenton.

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

  • He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait-waistcoat.

    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 5 The End Of It | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • The man-of-war doctor came up today, gave us a strait-waistcoat, taught us to bandage, examined the boy and saw he was apparently well — he insisted on doing his work all morning, poor lad, and when he first came down kissed all the family at breakfast!

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Since his unsuccessful attempt at suicide, this prisoner has been in such a state of excitement that we have been obliged to keep him in a strait-waistcoat.

    Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

  • It has not only been quite unnecessary to place him in the strait-waistcoat again, but his mood seems to have changed entirely.

    Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

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