English Explanatory Dictionary

basbleu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bluestocking (a literary woman).

Word forms

basbleu basbleus

Etymology

Borrowed from French bas-bleu, from bas (“stocking”) + bleu (“blue”), itself a calque of English bluestocking.

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