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strait-waistcoat

strait-waistcoat is the alternative form of straitwaistcoat.

Meaning of straitwaistcoat

Noun

straitwaistcoat (plural straitwaistcoats)

  1. (archaic) A straitjacket.
    • [T]he prisoner is suffered to exercise himself; but not without the very necessary precaution of confining his arms in the strait waistcoat, securing the doors, and attentively watching his motions.1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VI, letter 115

Forms of strait-waistcoat

pluralstrait-waistcoats

Questions about strait-waistcoat

What is strait-waistcoat the alternative form of?
Strait-waistcoat is the alternative form of straitwaistcoat.

Words near strait-waistcoat in the dictionary

  1. strait-handed
  2. strait-handedness
  3. strait-jacket
  4. strait-jackets
  5. strait-laced
  6. strait-waistcoat
  7. strait-waistcoats
  8. straited
  9. straiten
  10. straitened
  11. straitened circumstances

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