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straitwaistcoat

noun

Definitions

  1. A straitjacket.

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

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