EGAVE

bluestocking

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
  2. noun A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
  3. noun A member of the English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament.

Similar words

bas bleu blue-stocking bluestockingism basbleu bluenose bluenette blue-baller blouze bluiter bar star

Often followed by

circle and who society press feminism of in women

Word family

bluestockings

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