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In some senses, bluestocking is marked as derogatory, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
bluestocking
noun 3
Definitions
noun
1
A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
Many of her ladyship’s letters were the most whimsical rhodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned.
But Isabel was no blue-stocking; she was full of vivacity and life, and her conversation was sprightly and agreeable, even when turning upon those serious subjects.
2
A member of an 18th-century Blue Stockings Society.
3
A member of the English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament.
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