strait-waistcoat
strait-waistcoat — noun
1. a stiff coat with very long sleeves that fasten behind the back, once used to ke
a stiff coat with very long sleeves that fasten behind the back, once used to keep a person from moving their arms — for instance a patient in an old hospital or a prisoner who might turn violent
In the old mental hospital, nurses once locked violent patients into a strait-waistcoat.
collocation: lock someone into a strait-waistcoat
Doctors fastened the long sleeves of the strait-waistcoat tightly behind the man's back.
shows the long sleeves that fasten behind the back
Felix wrote a novel about a prisoner who escaped from a heavy strait-waistcoat.
The museum guide explained how a strait-waistcoat kept a frightened patient from hurting himself.
Astrid found an old strait-waistcoat with worn leather straps in the attic.
- straitjacket
the standard modern term; 'strait-waistcoat' is the older British form
- camisole
dated term for the same restraining garment, used in the history of psychiatry
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Chiefly historical and British; modern English uses 'straitjacket' for the same garment. You will mostly meet 'strait-waistcoat' in older texts, museum labels, or writing about the history of psychiatry.