Alexandra limp
nounEtymology
Named after Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925), then Princess of Wales, whose limp it imitates.
Definitions
A limping gait affected by fashionable women in imitation of the then Princess of Wales…
A limping gait affected by fashionable women in imitation of the then Princess of Wales who had some trouble with a knee.
- They knew nothing of boots tapered where the foot was broadest, of high heels, which threw the body off its balance, and of “Alexandra limps.”
- She quite deserves it, for now she thinks her counterpart is gone she has broken out more ridiculously than ever with her hair frizzed out, and her Alexandra limp, and all her most unnatural airs!
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