英语词汇strait的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

strait; straitlaced. Though used several hundred years earli- er, straitlaced emerged as a popular figure of speech only in the early 17th century when girdles became fashionable. Wrote one arbiter of taste at the time: “No Maid here’s handsome thought, unless she can with her short Palms her straight-lac’d body span.” This of course required a lot of tugging on the laces of a bodice or corset, but a woman’s body did become very strait or “tight and narrow” at the waist. Thus the term strait- laced derives not from the word “straight” but from the Middle English strait, the same word that gives us the tight and nar- row geographical straits. Strait, in turn, comes from the Latin strictus, “to tighten, bind tightly,” which also gives us constric- tion. The term straitlaced early became related to excessive prudishness because a straitlaced person supposedly drew moral bonds as tight as those on a girdle, while an unlaced, loose, woman was thought to be more voluptuous and less repressed.

词汇	strait
词源	strait; straitlaced. Though used several hundred years earli- er, straitlaced emerged as a popular figure of speech only in the early 17th century when girdles became fashionable. Wrote one arbiter of taste at the time: “No Maid here’s handsome thought, unless she can with her short Palms her straight-lac’d body span.” This of course required a lot of tugging on the laces of a bodice or corset, but a woman’s body did become very strait or “tight and narrow” at the waist. Thus the term strait- laced derives not from the word “straight” but from the Middle English strait, the same word that gives us the tight and nar- row geographical straits. Strait, in turn, comes from the Latin strictus, “to tighten, bind tightly,” which also gives us constric- tion. The term straitlaced early became related to excessive prudishness because a straitlaced person supposedly drew moral bonds as tight as those on a girdle, while an unlaced, loose, woman was thought to be more voluptuous and less repressed.
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