"strait-laced" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more strait-laced",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most strait-laced",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "strait-laced (comparative more strait-laced, superlative most strait-laced)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "straitjacket"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "straight-laced"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of straight-laced"
      ],
      "id": "en-strait-laced-en-adj-wOe4TOTr",
      "links": [
        [
          "straight-laced",
          "straight-laced#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1809, John Locke, Some thoughts concerning education, page 16:",
          "text": "And if women were themselves to frame the bodies of their children in their wombs, as they 4 often endeavour to mend their shapes when they are out, we should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced, or much tampered with.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1816, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors:",
          "text": "Juryman. My lord, I desire to know whether her stays were laced? Dell. Yes, she was laced. Mr. Cowper. If I take you right, you say she was strait-laced? Dell. Her stays were laced.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, John Lyly, G. K. Hunter, David M. Bevington, Galatea: Midas, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "High she was in the instep, but short in the heel; strait-laced, but loose-bodied.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bound with stays."
      ],
      "id": "en-strait-laced-en-adj-xruCdYXn",
      "links": [
        [
          "Bound",
          "bind"
        ],
        [
          "stay",
          "stay"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strait-laced"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more strait-laced",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most strait-laced",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "strait-laced (comparative more strait-laced, superlative most strait-laced)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "straitjacket"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "straight-laced"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of straight-laced"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "straight-laced",
          "straight-laced#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1809, John Locke, Some thoughts concerning education, page 16:",
          "text": "And if women were themselves to frame the bodies of their children in their wombs, as they 4 often endeavour to mend their shapes when they are out, we should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced, or much tampered with.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1816, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors:",
          "text": "Juryman. My lord, I desire to know whether her stays were laced? Dell. Yes, she was laced. Mr. Cowper. If I take you right, you say she was strait-laced? Dell. Her stays were laced.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, John Lyly, G. K. Hunter, David M. Bevington, Galatea: Midas, →ISBN, page 207:",
          "text": "High she was in the instep, but short in the heel; strait-laced, but loose-bodied.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bound with stays."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bound",
          "bind"
        ],
        [
          "stay",
          "stay"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strait-laced"
}