bluestockings
Meaning of bluestockings
- 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 bluestockings
- It is a name.
- The singular form of bluestockings is: bluestocking.
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Hyphenation of bluestockings
blue-stock-ings
- It consists of 3 syllables and 13 chars.
- bluestockings is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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