| 单词 | schooldame |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschooldame schooldame n. now historical the mistress of a small school for young children; = dame n. 3; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > elementary teacher schooldame1577 abecedary1596 dame1641 kindergarten teacher1863 kindergartener1868 infant mistress1921 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Oiijv Compare your former luste, vnto your after witte, For wisedome sayes for Vertues schoole dame Follie is not fitte. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. v. 94 We could suppose our Senses to be the School-Dames that first taught us the Alphabet of this learning. 1709 J. Green Diary 2 Dec. in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1869) X. 84 Paid ye school dame. 1852 T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. (1863) i. 10 He must study the anicular lines on the school-dame's slate. 1919 A. J. Todd Sci. Spirit & Social Work viii. 165 They represent the same unproductive state of mind manifested by the old schooldame who said, ‘It's but little they pays me and it's but little I teaches them’. 2003 Hist. Educ. Q. 43 367 In the 1690s almost all towns transformed the traditional Latin master into the town schoolmaster,..whose work was sometimes supplemented by that of female teachers called schooldames. < as lemmas |
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