Bas bleu
noun (pl) bas bleus (bɑ blø)
a bluestocking; intellectual woman
historical examples
the author smacks not of the bas bleu; she is a simple woman in the truest sense of the word, and a regal grande dame as well.
the mystery of the lost dauphin emilia pardo bazn
she was welcomed as a sister spirit by the coterie which she has so elaborately eulogized in the “bas bleu.”
lives of celebrated women samuel griswold goodrich
bas bleu, said bentnor, concealing his triumph at his own tactics in the lighting of his twenty-third cigarette.
ainslee’s, vol. 15, no. 5, june 1905 various
au reste, she has nothing of the bas bleu about her, and is very quiet and agreeable.
the letters of charles d-ckens charles d-ckens
he is himself a plain practical man, who has no sympathy with the bas bleu movement.
character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama, vol 1 the rev. e. cobham brewer, ll.d.
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