Associations to the word «Bluestocking»

Wiktionary

BLUESTOCKING, noun. A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

Dictionary definition

BLUESTOCKING, noun. A woman having literary or intellectual interests.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope