STRAIT


Meaning of STRAIT in English

laced adj. priggish, prim, conservative, old-fashioned, Victorian, old-maidish, proper, prudish, puritanical, moralistic, strict, narrow-minded, (over-)scrupulous, fussy, Colloq pernickety or US also persnickety, stuffy, goody-goody Her aunt has the strait-laced notion that girls ought to be home by ten o'clock

Oxford thesaurus English vocab.      Английский словарь Оксфорд тезаурус.