bas bleu


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bas bleu

(bɑ blø)
n, pl bas bleus (bɑ blø)
a bluestocking; intellectual woman
[C18: from French translation of English bluestocking]
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Noun1.bas bleu - a woman having literary or intellectual interestsbas bleu - a woman having literary or intellectual interests
bluestocking
adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
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Education also opened the doors to literary careers, to the dissatisfaction of many male and even female observers, who denounced the phenomenon of the bas bleu, while expressing the fear of creating, through education, a female version of the declasse.
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