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Meanings of too strait-laced in English

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Usage of too strait-laced in English
1
Why, Parson, old man, you mustn't be too strait-laced out here.
Under Fire
2
Foster thinks we have been too strait-laced.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
3
"I think you are too strait-laced, Patterson," agreed Mr. Craven.
The Uninhabited House
4
"They are too good for me, too orthodox, too strait-laced," exclaimed the Russian one day in his quiet, jeering way.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891