A woman having literary or intellectual interests.
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Examples for "bluestocking"
Examples for "bluestocking"
1Oh, why did I have to have a bluestocking for a sister?
2It is about a bluestocking who discovers her mother is a scarlet woman.
3Yes, well, no need to overset me with bluestocking explanations and Royal Society papers.
4Madame Lefoux paid attention with the interest of a bluestocking.
5A group of young men, normally intimidated by the bluestocking's erudition, found this comment hilarious.
1I might have said she wasn't a bas bleu.
2There is just a whisper, you know, that you were rather a bas bleu before you came to us.
3Schone Seele, and bas bleu!
4Stockings, to which the " Bas Bleu" was nothing.
5See "Florio," a poetical tale, which Miss Hannah More had recently published with the " Bas Bleu.
6Such attainments, if sedulously pursued during the succeeding decade, might have converted her into an alarmingly precise Bas Bleu!
7If you question my sincerity, can you doubt my admiring you, when you have gratified my self-love so amply in your Bas Bleu?
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