blue-stocking
Example Sentences
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"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
She wanted to be broad-minded if she could, for she was rather a blue-stocking.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Flaxman, the sculptor, and Mrs. Mathews, of blue-stocking memory, equipped him as a hardware man, and as such I made two etchings of him.”
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
To the ladies, the wealthy foreigner was even more indulgent; a pretty woman, a woman of fashion, a blue-stocking, an unknown or unappreciated artist, were always welcome in his salon.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
