straitjackets

Canvas restraint wraps

Straitjackets are garments used to restrain people, typically in psychiatric settings, with long sleeves that wrap around the body and fasten in back, preventing arm movement.

The singular straitjacket extends figuratively to anything that severely restricts freedom: The regulations were a straitjacket on innovation.

Sometimes misspelled "straightjacket."

historical

Houdini

Famous escape artist

escape artistPerformer who defeats restraints
madhouseChaotic, disordered place
sanatoriumFacility for prolonged recovery

Victorian · cruel · inhumane · chains · shackles · treatment · lunatic · abuse · reform · institutionalization

metaphorical

restriction

Limit on action

constraintLimiting condition or rule
limitationBound on extent
conformityAdherence to norms

suppression · rigidity · orthodoxy · dogma · bureaucracy · regulation · convention · stifling · oppression · control

restraint

confinement

State of being restricted

asylumShelter from persecution
restraintControl over impulses
bucklesStrap-fastening devices

canvas · padded · institution · psychiatric · immobilization · ward · sedation · isolation · commitment · involuntary

straitjackets

Houdini

restriction

confinement

straitjackets

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