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Meanings of bluestocking in English
Usage of bluestocking in English
1
Oh, why did I have to have a bluestocking for a sister?
2
It is about a bluestocking who discovers her mother is a scarlet woman.
3
Yes, well, no need to overset me with bluestocking explanations and Royal Society papers.
4
Madame Lefoux paid attention with the interest of a bluestocking.
5
A group of young men, normally intimidated by the bluestocking's erudition, found this comment hilarious.
6
You're supposed to be a bluestocking, didn't she say?
7
Guess what, Molly-I'mgoing to make you a bluestocking.
8
Alexia was becoming horribly afraid that her bluestocking tendencies had transferred to her daughter, in spades.
9
He was afraid I would become a bluestocking and lose my charm and spoil my looks.
10
Her grandmother is a European of her time & her class-Socialist, bluestocking, agnostic, and a snob.
11
No conventional bluestocking... Mary Wollstonecraft in a drawing by A S Merrit after John Opie's painting.
12
Don't marry a Jewess or a bluestocking or a woman who is queer in any way.
13
Nothing of the bluestocking about her, though.
14
It said in the papers that she was a bluestocking, arranged courses in self-defense, that sort of thing.
15
However, Mary was no conventional bluestocking.
16
My Mother was his special favourite, and his vanity did its best to make a bluestocking of her.
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