English Explanatory Dictionary

George Sandism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. moral transgression and independence among women

Word forms

George Sandism

Etymology

After the French novelist George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, 1804–1876), who had various romantic affairs and scandalously wore male clothing and smoked tobacco in public; + -ism.

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