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Bluestocking
bluestocking
also blue-stocking (bluestockings) A bluestocking is an intellectual woman. (OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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noun Etymology: Bluestocking society, 18th century literary clubs Date: 1790 a woman having intellectual or literary interests ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. usu. derog. an intellectual or literary woman. Etymology: from the (less formal) blue stockings worn by one man at a literary society meeting c.1750 ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1840, put-down for a woman considered too learned, traces to a London literary salon founded c.1750 by Elizabeth Montagu on the Parisian model, featuring intellectual discussion instead of card games, and in place of ostentatious evening attire, simple dress, including Benjamin Stillingfleet's blue-gray tradesman's hose in place of gentleman's black silk, hence the term. None of the ladies wore blue stockings. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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