straitwaistcoat

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noun

A straitjacket.

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Meanings

nounstraitwaistcoat (plural straitwaistcoats)

plural straitwaistcoats · alternative strait-waistcoat · alternative strait waistcoat

  1. archaicA straitjacket.

    When at last Conroy faced a real doctor, it was, he hoped, to be saved from suicide by a strait-waistcoat.

    1911, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Same Boat”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 74
    1 more example

    [T]he prisoner is suffered to exercise himself; but not without the very necessary precaution of confining his arms in the strait waistcoat, securing the doors, and attentively watching his motions.

    1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VI, letter 115

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
straitjacket
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APA

straitwaistcoat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/straitwaistcoat

MLA

“straitwaistcoat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/straitwaistcoat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “straitwaistcoat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/straitwaistcoat.

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