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blue-stocking

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blue-stocking
female intellectual; advocates nontraditional feminine talents. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 127]
See : Feminism

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You are well-rounded, a blue-stocking fit to be the wife of a pirate chief.
In all of them, termagant, flirt, crank, washerwoman, blue-stocking, outcast and even in the ordinary fool of the ordinary commerce there is something left, if only a spark.
 
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