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blue-nosed
adjective
excessively moral, puritanical, repressed US, 1890- The Mann Act was invented by a Chicago blue-nosed representative named Mann, after a hophead parlor-whore in melodramatic mood threw a note out of the window of the late Harry Guzik’s cathouse on which she had written “I am a white slave.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 86, 1951
- Mr. Poole was Philadelphia’s blue-nose censor, and whenever he came to catch the show, all the strippers would wear big panties and opaque brassieres and would drop the bumps and grinds from their acts. — Georgia Sothern, My Life in Burlesque, p. 73, 1972
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