schoolmiss

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

school +‎ miss

Noun[edit]

schoolmiss (plural schoolmisses)

  1. (dated) schoolgirl
    • 1867, Mary Jane Holmes, The Cameron Pride: Or, Purified by Suffering, page 31:
      There was nothing there to interest him, he thought, as Euclid and Algebra, French and Rhetoric were bygone things, while young schoolmisses, in braided hair and pantalettes, were shockingly insipid.
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