strait-bracing

Updated: May 22, 2025

Quite meekly, though she had a quick temper, she bore his teasing remarks as he watched her 'binding up her hair to make her a fair large forehead, and with strait-bracing in her body to make her middle small, both twain to her great pain'; while she on her part was frequently vexed that he 'refused to go forward with the best, and had no wish 'greatly to get upward in the world.

Mrs. Lang - The Red Book of Heroes