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Alexandrian limp

Alexandrian limp is the alternative form 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

Forms of Alexandrian limp

pluralAlexandrian limps

Questions about Alexandrian limp

What is Alexandrian limp the alternative form of?
Alexandrian limp is the alternative form of Alexandra limp.

Words near Alexandrian limp in the dictionary

  1. Alexandria Eschate
  2. Alexandrian
  3. Alexandrian Acephali
  4. Alexandrian laurel
  5. Alexandrian laurels
  6. Alexandrian limp
  7. Alexandrian limps
  8. Alexandrian Orthodox Church
  9. Alexandrian school
  10. Alexandrian Wicca
  11. Alexandrian Wiccan

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