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
And my mother says, too, that you are growing quite a blue-stocking!
From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Our botanical professor used to boast of her proficiency; but she takes great pains to avoid every appearance of being a blue-stocking.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
