| a. | 1. | Bound with stays. |
| 2. | Restricted; stiff; constrained. | |
| 3. | Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals. |
| Adj. | 1. | strait-laced - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian, puritanical, prim |