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bluestocking::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bas bleu |
| Type of | adult female, woman |
Examples of bluestocking
bluestocking
The pocket-square print has a pleasingly old-fashioned, bluestocking quality to it.
From the guardian.co.uk
All the while he receives, and occasionally deigns to answer, long and passionate letters from a provincial bluestocking.
From the theatlantic.com
The comparison with a redneck superstar might outrage bluestocking Wilde partisans, but it isn't quite the heresy it seems.
From the time.com
The Baconians owe their ideas to the first of several conspiracy-minded Americans, a charismatic 19th-century bluestocking named Delia Bacon.
From the guardian.co.uk
Models recalled Carey Mulligan in An Education, although bluestocking styling contrasted with loose gauge scarves and ponchos with plenty of bounce.
From the independent.co.uk
There are specific tours for admirers of gargoyles, gardens, bluestocking women, William Morris, murderers, martyrs, Inspector Morse and more.
From the nzherald.co.nz
For scholars it's a major literary event, a chance at last to fully flesh out our understanding of a major writer often seen as a remote bluestocking in big skirts and old-fashioned hats.
From the sacbee.com
While the book's storytelling virtues are enormous, you don't have to be a bluestocking of political correctness to find some of this fantasy anti-Arab, or anti-Eastern, or anti-Ottoman.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Despite the period costumes, Eve Best's Beatrice puts one in mind of a bluestocking spinster, fiercely intelligent, ironic and good-hearted but using her prodigious wit as a shield against hurt.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- A woman having literary or intellectual interests
- The term bluestocking (or bluestockinger) refers most commonly to members of the Blue Stockings Society - a literary society led by Elizabeth Montagu and others in the 1750s in England. ...
- Bluestockings is bookstore and cafu00E9 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
- A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman
- (Bluestockings) n., a woman's term for unfulfilled sexual arousal.
- A female intellectual / writer, or a member of the 18th century Blue Stocking Society which encouraged female education.
- An Educated, or bookish woman.
