alexandrian limp

Example Sentences

• "The “Alexandrian limp” is the latest eccentricity of fashion. It is produced by wearing a very high heeled boot on one foot and a flat heeled boot on the other. The young lady waddles about like a goose."
• "She was small in size, and by no means attractive in personal appearance, having undergone the usual process for rendering the feet disproportionately small; her walk was anything but graceful, her gait being a sort of indescribable cross between the double infliction of Alexandrian limp and Grecian bend."
• "The Grecian Bend and Alexandrian Limp were both to be noticed in their purity as the procession filed by."
• "The story of the man who was bathing at the time, and ran out in Adamic costume, has been told too often, and for a fictional individual he has become altogether too notorious; but it is a fact that some ladies walking in front of their Grecian Bends (rain won’t keep the dear creatures from shopping), forgot for a moment the dignity of fashion, and consigned their Alexandrian limp (the latest abomination) to the limbo of departed corns and bunions, and straightened themselves into decent looking women."
• "The high French boot heels enables^([sic]) the fashionable ladies to imitate the Alexandrian limp, which is very fascinating indeed."
• "We hope, however, that there are not many who have pretensions to lead the fashion who are so intoxicated by the classics as to exhibit the “Grecian bend” and the “Alexandrian''' limp.”"