Examples of schoolmistress in a Sentence
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The inspiration for Jean Brodie was a charismatic schoolmistress called Christina Kay.
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Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
—Silvina Ocampo, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
—Vanity Fair, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
—Silvina Ocampo, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
—Vanity Fair, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
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First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of schoolmistress was
in the 15th century
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“Schoolmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolmistress. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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schoolmistress
noun
school·mis·tress
-ˌmis-trəs 
: a woman who teaches school
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