Alexandra limp

English Alternative forms en Alexandrian limp Etymology Named after Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925), then Princess of Wales, whose limp it imitates. Noun A limping gait affected by fashionable women in imitation of the then Princess of Wales who had some trouble with a knee. from 1869 en The Ladies of Edinburgh and the Alexandra Limp w:The Dundee Courier & Argus 5103 Dundee 9 December 1869 [4] https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/396745931/ 2 A monstrosity has made itself visible among the female promenaders in Princes Street, viz., “the Alexandra limp!” Indeed, one decent woman expressed her pity in an audible “Puir things!” as she passed, but I was enlightened by hearing a pretty girl exclaim to her companion, “Why that’s the Alexandra limp! How ugly!” en Mr. Frank Curzon on “Rags and Bones.” The British Lyceum;A Popular Record of Literary and Scientific Progress, the Representation of the Constituents of Literary Institutions, and the Organ of all Associations for Mutual Literary and Scientific Advancement I 2 London Printed and Published for the Proprietor by William Medlen Hutchings,at 5, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street November 1875 31 1 They knew nothing of boots tapered where the foot was broadest, of high heels, which threw the body off its balance, and of “Alexandra limps.” en w:Charlotte M[ary] Yonge Autobiography of Patty Applecheeks Bye-Words: A Collection of Tales New and Old London w:Macmillan and Co. 1880 304 She quite deserves it, for now she thinks her counterpart is gone she has broken out more ridiculously than ever with her hair frizzed out, and her Alexandra limp, and all her most unnatural airs! References 2ufuhry Alexandra limp Alexandra n 1351912476 en eponyms