单词 | blue-stockinged |
释义 | blue-stockinged/ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋd/Now archaic adjective 1Wearing blue stockings. Also (and in earliest use) figurative : belonging to or characteristic of a person (such as a countryman, tradesman, puritan, etc.) who wears plain blue worsted, as opposed to black silk, stockings (now rare ). 2Chiefly derogatory. Especially of a woman: that is a bluestocking; learned, scholarly, literary, intellectual. OriginMid 17th century; earliest use found in John Cleveland (bap. 1613, d. 1658), poet. From blue + stockinged. |
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