Bluestocking

Quick meaning: Bluestocking is a noun meaning (usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

Meaning

(usually derogatory) A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

More Meanings

1. (historical) A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
2. (historical) A member of the English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament.

Example Sentences

Many of her ladyship’s letters were the most whimsical rhodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned.

The artist who created strong, passionate, brilliant heroines turns out to have disapproved of bluestockings and refused to educate his own intelligent daughters.

But Isabel was no blue-stocking; she was full of vivacity and life, and her conversation was sprightly and agreeable, even when turning upon those serious subjects.

Bragg was a Massachusetts-born bluestocking, a New Woman of the Progressive Era who changed not only the cultural face of Charleston but also the nation's approach to museum education.

Word Forms

• bluestockings
• blue-stocking

Synonyms for bluestocking

Depending on context, synonyms include basbleu.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blue-stocking, bluestockingism, basbleu, bluenose, bluenette, blue-baller.

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