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
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
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
She passed for a blue-stocking because she read serious books, and for 'highfalutin' because she speculated upon matters quite uninteresting to young girls in general.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip
She was extremely accomplished, not merely in the accomplishments of a blue-stocking but in art, and even in housewifery.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
