strait-jacket
n.
also straitjacket, 1795 as a type of restraint for lunatics, from strait, adj. + jacket, n.; earlier in same sense was strait-waistcoat (1753). As a verb from 1863. Related: Strait-jacketed.
| 词汇 | strait-jacket |
| 词根词缀 | Online Etymology Dictionary strait-jacket n. also straitjacket, 1795 as a type of restraint for lunatics, from strait, adj. + jacket, n.; earlier in same sense was strait-waistcoat (1753). As a verb from 1863. Related: Strait-jacketed. |
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