Both Uses of
strait
in
The Age of Innocence
- Mrs. Manson Mingott had long since succeeded in untying her husband's fortune, and had lived in affluence for half a century; but memories of her early straits had made her excessively thrifty, and though, when she bought a dress or a piece of furniture, she took care that it should be of the best, she could not bring herself to spend much on the transient pleasures of the table.†
Chpt 2
- Then she could always plead moods and nerves, and the right not to be held too strictly to account; and even in the most strait-laced societies the laugh was always against the husband.†
Chpt 31 *
Definition:
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(strait as in: Strait of Hormuz) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water