Alexandra limp
noun
A limping gait affected by some members of fashionable society in imitation of Alexandra, who developed a limp after contracting rheumatic fever in 1867.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Every Saturday.
- lock rail
- lockram
- lockrum
- lock saw
- lock screen
- lock seat
- lockset
- lockshoe
- lock side
- lock sill
- locksman
- locksmith
- locksmithery
- locksmithing
- lock someone down
- lock someone out
- lock someone out of
- lock someone/thing in (or into)
- lock someone up (or away)
- lock something away
- lock something up (also lock up)
- lockspit
- lockspitting
- lock spring
- lock staple