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Jump to Navigation. July 15, We are currently experiencing playback issues on Safari. Origin of bluestocking —85; so called from the informal attire, especially blue woolen instead of black silk stockings, worn by some women of the group def.
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How to use bluestocking in a sentence I am not going to caricature a bluestocking , but to point out one or two real dangers. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, Various. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of bluestocking?
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