basbleu

See also: bas-bleu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bas-bleu, from bas (“stocking”) + bleu (“blue”), itself a calque of English bluestocking.

Noun

basbleu (plural basbleus)

(derogatory, dated) A bluestocking; a literary woman.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “basbleu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

baubles, bubales, busable