Alexandrian limp

plural Alexandrian limps

1. alternativeAlternative form of Alexandra limp.

   The Grecian Bend and Alexandrian Limp were both to be noticed in their purity as the procession filed by.

   1870 January 20, “The Ball Season”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 30, number 16, Brooklyn, N.Y., page [3], column 1

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   The “Alexandrian limp” is the latest eccentricity of fashion. It is produced by wearing a very high heeled boot on one foot and a flat heeled boot on the other. The young lady waddles about like a goose.

   1869 December 21, Grant County Herald, old series, volume 27, number 40; new series, volume 21, number 29, Lancaster, Wis., page [4], column 4

   She was small in size, and by no means attractive in personal appearance, having undergone the usual process for rendering the feet disproportionately small; her walk was anything but graceful, her gait being a sort of indescribable cross between the double infliction of Alexandrian limp and Grecian bend.

   1870 January 11, “The Chinese in Texas. Sambo’s Successor Arrives, Makes Himself at Home, and Goes to Work—“Clean, Docile and Industrious.” / From the Galveston News, January 11.]”, in Public Ledger, volume IX, number 122, Memphis, Tenn., published 21 January 1870, front page, column 3

   The story of the man who was bathing at the time, and ran out in Adamic costume, has been told too often, and for a fictional individual he has become altogether too notorious; but it is a fact that some ladies walking in front of their Grecian Bends (rain won’t keep the dear creatures from shopping), forgot for a moment the dignity of fashion, and consigned their Alexandrian limp (the latest abomination) to the limbo of departed corns and bunions, and straightened themselves into decent looking women.

   1870 April 5, Blossom [pseudonym], “[Letter from San Francisco. [Regular Correspondence to the News.]] The Earthquake.”, in Gold Hill Daily News, volume XIII, number 2001, Gold Hill, Nev., published 6 April 1870, page [2], column 2

   The high French boot heels enables^([sic]) the fashionable ladies to imitate the Alexandrian limp, which is very fascinating indeed.

   1870 May 20, “Much is Little”, in Columbia Herald, volume XV, number 39, Columbia, Tenn., page [4], column 1

   We hope, however, that there are not many who have pretensions to lead the fashion who are so intoxicated by the classics as to exhibit the “Grecian bend” and the “Alexandrian limp.”

   1870 May 25, The Sydney Morning Herald, volume LXI, number 9987, [Sydney, N.S.W.], page 4, column 2