blue-stocking

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 224 words | Copyright

blue-stocking attrib. wearing blue stockings XVII; applied from c.1780 to the intellectuals who met in London at the houses of Mrs. Montague and others, where blue worsted stockings were worn by some instead of black silk.

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