bluestocking
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bluestockings, plural;
/ˈblo͞oˌstäkiNG/,
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bluestockings, plural;
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An intellectual or literary woman
Web Definitions:
- 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 (bookstore)) Bluestockings is an infoshop (activist bookstore and café) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Collectively run by volunteers and a worker-owner collective, Bluestockings is Manhattan's only women's bookstore. ...
- 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.