puff-shouldered

Updated: June 8, 2025

But they are all out of date already, and if in a year or so you saw your poor dowdy wife with tight sleeves among a roomful of puff-shouldered young ladies, you would not be consoled even by the memory that it was in that dress that you first . . . you know! As a matter of fact, I MUST have my dress to be married in.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus