All 3 Uses of
strait
in
Gone with the Wind
- But now, even the most strait laced felt that patriotism called upon them to be more broad minded.†
Chpt 2.12 *
- Oh, men are so conceited they'll believe anything that flatters them…… I must never let him dream what straits we're in, not till I've got him.†
Chpt 4.32
- Any time she wanted to fill her house with guests, she could do so and these guests would be far more entertaining, far more handsomely dressed than those prissy, strait-laced old fools who disapproved of her.†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
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(strait as in: Strait of Hormuz) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water