as in Victorian
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals
some of the more bluenosed parents demanded that the novel be removed from the high school's summer reading list
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Adjective
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Other styles from the Victorian Era that are still en vogue are half-hoops, which feature three to five stones spanning across a thin finger, and Toi et Mois, which feature two gemstones side by side.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
11 Aug. 2025 -
George Eliot, Middlemarch A Victorian novel that feels startlingly modern.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Indeed, one of the reasons some men left the League was their perception that the institution treated women too preciously and that the school administration labored to cultivate a puritanical atmosphere in a place that was by nature loose and raucous.—
Anne Halsey,
JSTOR Daily,
6 Aug. 2025
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For Max in particular, his parent’s lifelong humorless severity looks more and more like malevolent delusion under a cloak of puritanical righteousness.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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“Bluenosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluenosed. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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