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Definition of Schoolmarms
1. schoolmarm [n] - See also: schoolmarm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schoolmarms
Literary usage of Schoolmarms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dixie After the War: An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the by Myrta Lockett Avary (1906)
"... CHAPTER XXVII schoolmarms AND OTHER NEWCOMERS MANY good people came down to
do good to us and the negroes; we were not always so nice to these as we ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1874)
"A year after "Hawkins's Idiot Asylum" was completed, one day there drifted into
the valley a riotous cavalcade of " schoolmarms," teachers of the San ..."
3. Prejudices by Henry Louis Mencken (1919)
"PREJUDICES: FIRST SERIES of Baltimore schoolmarms, and cost about $1000. It took
the dear girls ten long years to raise the money. ..."
4. Prejudices: Fifth Series by Henry Louis Mencken (1919)
"... two others gave $50 each, one of the devoted schoolmarms raised $52 in nickels
and dimes, and George W. Childs agreed to pay any remaining deficit. ..."
5. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
"They got to talkin' 'bout school, for mother has summer-boarded a lot o' the
schoolmarms, an' likes 'em. 'How does the little Temperance girl git along ? ..."
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