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bluestocking definition

blue·stocking (-stäk′iŋ)

noun

a learned, bookish, or pedantic woman

Etymology: from the unconventional blue (instead of black) stockings worn by Benjamin Stillingfleet at literary meetings in the home of Mrs. E. R. Montagu in London in the 1750s

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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