English Explanatory Dictionary

Lucy Stoner

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Lucy Stone League, a women's rights organization founded in 1921 that promoted the idea of women keeping their maiden names after marriage.

Word forms

Lucy Stoner Lucy Stoners

Etymology

From Lucy + Stone + -er, after Lucy Stone (1818–1893), the first married woman in the United States to carry her birth name through life.

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