strait-laced
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I maintain he couldn't have done it—it would have been a strait laced torture to his muse, he would have call'd for the Bull for a relief.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
