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Meanings of tight lacing in English

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Usage of tight lacing in English
1
The tight lacing prevents the intended freedom, besides weakening the mother's muscles.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
2
The lobe had been extensively deformed by tight lacing, and caused serious inconvenience.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
3
No tight lacing; no casing in whalebone-nothinglike a hoop.
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
4
The liver was misshapen from tight lacing, elongated and drawn downward toward the ring.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
5
This sense of false modesty is responsible for much of the tight lacing during pregnancy.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
6
The writers of this time speak of tight lacing, and of ladies with small waists.
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
7
Perhaps-even only the result of tight lacing, or inaction.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
8
There are still further evils produced by tight lacing.
The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease
9
McWhinnie, in The Lancet, records a case of dislodgment of an enlarged liver from tight lacing.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
10
Two or three beautiful women well known in society killed themselves last year by tight lacing.
Manners and Social Usages
11
This tight lacing, however, was her last coquetry.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
12
The injury wrought by tight lacing is now everywhere understood, and in recent years large waists have become stylish.
Vitality Supreme
13
Displacement of the womb, interior irritation and inflammation, miscarriage and sterility, are some of the many injuries of tight lacing.
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
14
There is no torture about it, for tight lacing is out of fashion, and we have nice, sensible things nowadays.
Eight Cousins
15
In tight lacing, the liver is often forced downward out from the cover of the ribs, and thus becomes permanently displaced.
A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
16
This style of dress prevailed, with various modifications, until about 1810 when corsets and tight lacing again returned with threefold fury.
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
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