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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
bluestocking
 
SYLLABICATION:blue·stock·ing
PRONUNCIATION:  blstkng
NOUN: A woman with strong scholarly or literary interests.
ETYMOLOGY:After the Blue Stocking Society, a nickname for a predominantly female literary club of 18th-century London.
 
 
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