1) Adult female 2) Asian news magazine 3) Bas bleu 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Exclusively Saxon word 6) Feminist magazine 7) Woman 8) Word of purely Anglo origin 9) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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1) Pedant
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A bluestocking is an educated, intellectual woman. The term most often refers to a specific group of 18th-century intellectual women led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu (1720–1800), the `Queen of the Blues`, and including Elizabeth Vesey (1715–91), Hester Chapone (1727–1801), and the classicist Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806). I.....
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early feminist; educated or literary woman
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• (n.) A literary lady; a female pedant. • (n.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
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any of a group of ladies who in mid-18th-century England held `conversations` to which they invited men of letters and members of the aristocracy ...
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1. A literary lady; a female pedant. ... As explained in Boswell's 'Life of Dr. Johnson', this term is derived from the name given to certain meetings held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant of these assemblies was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always wore blue stockings. He was so much d...
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Blue'stock`ing noun 1. A literary lady; a female pedant. [ Colloq.] » As explained in Boswell's 'Life of Dr. Johnson', this term is derived from the name given to certain meetings held by ladies, in Johnson's time, for conversation with distinguished literary men. An eminent attendant of th...
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n] - a woman having literary or intellectual interests
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bas bleu noun a woman having literary or intellectual interests
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a woman with considerable scholarly, literary, or intellectual ability or interest. · a member of a mid-18th-century London literary circle: Lady Montagu was a celebrated bluestocking.
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