Definition of Blue stocking. Meaning of Blue stocking. Synonyms of Blue stocking

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Definition of Blue stocking

Blue stocking
Stocking Stock"ing, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.] A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.

Meaning of Blue stocking from wikipedia

- spaced blue-stocking or blue stockings) is a derogatory term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society...
- The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century that emphasised education and mutual...
- Blue Stockings is the first full-length play by Jessica Swale. It is set at Girton College, Cambridge in 1896. Its title refers to bluestockings, a derogatory...
- Vancouver 3-1 to win championship The team's colors are red, navy blue, light blue, and beige. In the 2006 offseason, the Indians began a process to redesign...
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (****anese: パンティ&ストッキングwithガーターベルト, Hepburn: Panti ando Sutokkingu wizu Gātāberuto) is a ****anese anime television series...
- bookshop in New York Bluestocking (magazine), a ****anese feminist magazine Blue Stockings Society, a literary society for women in 18th century England M.P.,...
- A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures...
- Nicola Cornick (born 1964 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England) is a British writer of historical romance novels and time slip mysteries that merge multiple...
- The Toledo Blue Stockings formed as a minor league baseball team in Toledo, Ohio, in 1883. They won the Northwestern League championship in 1883. Their...
- kinds: "fine-lady parties, which she called pink; her blue-stocking parties, which she called blue; and, more frequently, a mixture of both. At the last...