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bluestocking
(usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary or cultured woman.
📑 Synonyms:
basbleu
💬 Quotations
Many of her ladyship’s letters were the most whimsical rhodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned.
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it’s very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
(historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
(historical) A member of the English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament.
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