bluestocking
Meaning of bluestocking
- an intellectual or literary woman.
a Victorian bluestocking
bluestocking women
late 17th century: originally used to describe a man wearing blue worsted (instead of formal black silk) stockings; extended to mean ‘in informal dress’. Later the term denoted a person who attended the literary assemblies held ( c. 1750) by three London society ladies, where some of the men favoured less formal dress. The women who attended became known as blue-stocking ladies or blue-stockingers .
Information about bluestocking
- It is a name.
- The plural form of bluestocking is: bluestockings.
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Hyphenation of bluestocking
blue-stock-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- bluestocking is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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