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schoolmistress|ˈskuːlmɪstrɪs|
Forms: see school n.1 and mistress.
A woman who teaches in a school; a mistress in a school. † In early use with wider sense, a female teacher, governess. Also transf. and fig.
a1500[see schoolmaster n.1 1 d, quot. c 1460]. 1535Coverdale Wisd. viii. 4 For she [wisdom] is y⊇ scolemastresse of y⊇ nurtoure of God, & y⊇ choser out of his workes. 1560Becon Catech. vi. Wks. I. 537 b, Al that they [sc. nuns] were commaunded to do of their scholemastresses and gouernesses. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. xii. xiii. (1604) 176 A schoole⁓mistris of such practises was chosen of purpose, called Locusta of late condemned of empoisoning. 1639Fuller Holy War ii. xii. (1640) 59 Phenicia was the schoolmistresse of Grecia, and first taught her her alphabet. 1726Swift Gulliver iv. vii, But Nature, it seems, hath not been so expert a School-mistress. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. vi, She had more of the air of a schoolmistress than Mistress of the Six Jolly-Fellowship-Porters.
Hence schoolmistressy a., characteristic of or resembling a schoolmistress.
1915D. H. Lawrence Rainbow x. 251 Miss Grey..had a certain silvery, school-mistressy beauty of character. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 339 In that grating voice, she gave her clear, schoolmistressy, common-sense view of the White Paper. |
