Fwd: bluestocking: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Date: 2013/10/4
Subject: bluestocking: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Friday, October 4, 2013 bluestocking \BLOO-stok-ing\, noun: 1. a woman with considerable scholarly, literary, or intellectual ability or interest. 2. a member of a mid-18th-century London literary circle: Lady Montagu was a celebrated bluestocking. ...if you rolled the whole group into one girl, she would be what Norine said — a rich, assured, beautiful bluestocking. -- Mary McCarthy, The Group, 1963 She reads such deep books—all about facts and figures: she'll be quite a blue-stocking by and by. -- Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, 1864-1866 Bluestocking originally referred to cheap blue socks worn by men, in contrast to fine white silk stockings. In the mid-1700s, these blue socks became associated with intellectuals who attended salons where female intellectuals were highly valued. Eventually bluestockings came to be a pejorative term for intellectual women, though it started out as a positive or neutral term. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Word Dynamo by Dictionary.com Developmental linguists tell us that there are at least four distinct things that one must learn to acquire a language. We must know how to speak it and write it, we must know how to put words in correct order and - perhaps most importantly - we must know what the words mean. This last... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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