bearing-rein

Men who wear a mustache are permitted to "saw" the mouth with the napkin, as if it were a bearing-rein, but for ladies this would look too masculine.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

It is a great pity to see that so many people will put the rein, called a bearing-rein, upon their horses.

The Children's Book of London

He saw again the pale face she ever after wore; he remembered how, when he met her in the street, she used at first to droop her head and blush, until her will lifted her chin like a bearing-rein and she forced herself to a proud blank stare, while her small stature worked to make her crinoline an indignant spreading majesty behind her.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

As the Duchess in the play said of her son, who had had unpleasantness with the authorities at Eton because they had been trying to teach him things, "Silwood is a sweet boy, but he will not stand the bearing-rein".

The White Feather 1928

And this placing of the town out of bounds struck both of them simultaneously as a distinct attempt on the part of the headmaster to apply the bearing-rein.

The White Feather 1928

Dunstable was also a sweet boy, but he, too, objected to the bearing-rein.

The White Feather 1928

Then some cheap hosiery had to be purchased -- more collars of the bearing-rein type, some stiff shirts, made-up white ties, pinchbeck studs and cufflinks.

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

Constitutional usage, determined for him by others, was the bearing-rein that had bowed his neck to that decorative arch of mingled condescension and pride with which he received deputations, addresses, ambassadors.

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

No whisper of prophetic intelligence told the species of the terrible slavery that was to come, of the whip and spur and bearing-rein, the clumsy load and the slippery street, the insufficient food, and the knacker's yard, that was to replace the wide grass-land and the freedom of the earth.

Tales of Space and Time 1906

"Oh, well, well!" the man exclaimed, throwing back his head in sharp impatience, as a horse will against the restraint of the bearing-rein.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891