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Alexandra limps

Alexandra limps is the plural of Alexandra limp.

Meaning of Alexandra limp

Noun

Alexandra limp (plural Alexandra limps)

  1. A limping gait affected by fashionable women in imitation of the then Princess of Wales who had some trouble with a knee.
    • A monstrosity has made itself visible among the female promenaders in Princes Street, viz., “the Alexandra limp!” […] Indeed, one decent woman expressed her pity in an audible “Puir things!” as she passed, but I was enlightened by hearing a pretty girl exclaim to her companion, “Why that’s the...1869 December 9, “The Ladies of Edinburgh and the Alexandra Limp”, in The Dundee Courier & Argus, number 5103, Dundee, page [4], column 2

Questions about Alexandra limps

What is Alexandra limps the plural of?
Alexandra limps is the plural of Alexandra limp.

Words near Alexandra limps in the dictionary

  1. alexanders
  2. Alexanderson alternator
  3. Alexanderson alternators
  4. Alexandra
  5. Alexandra limp
  6. Alexandra limps
  7. Alexandra palm
  8. Alexandra palms
  9. Alexandra's parakeet
  10. Alexandra's parakeets
  11. Alexandran

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