adjective
- restrained and tempered, especially in consumption of food or drink
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“And also because Midwesterners are insular, industrious, abstemious, introspective people skittish about body contact, and a state fair is liberation from all that…”
Keillor, Garrison. “Top Ten State Fair Joys”, National Geographic. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2009: 72.
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