'Strait-laced' definitions:

Definition of 'strait-laced'

adjective

Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]

From: GCIDE

Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a.
1. Bound with stays. [1913 Webster]
Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals. [1913 Webster]