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Schoolma'am   Listen
noun
Schoolma'am  n.  A schoolmistress. (Colloq.U.S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Schoolma'am" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Little Schoolma'am wishes you a good and lively vacation, and sends you a picture of a Chinese Floating Village,—a cool and pleasant kind of village to live in through the summer, I've no doubt, with plashing water, and fresh breezes, all about you. ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various

... this man as if he were one of her own village people. The conductor, sensitive as are most New England people, spite of their apparent familiarity of address, to the least rebuff, felt the change in Mercy's tone, and walked away, thinking half surlily, "She needn't put on airs. A schoolma'am, I reckon. Wonder if it can be her that's going ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson



Words linked to "Schoolma'am" :   schoolteacher, mistress



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