schoolma'am
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schoolma'am
Example Sentences
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Teachers can even take on the role of Victorian schoolma'am to tick off kids the old-fashioned way.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010
Born into a theatrical family, she chose to be a schoolma'am, was teaching kindergarten in San Francisco in 1894 when she made her stage debut with a local company in which her mother acted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trapped in the circumscribed respectability of suburban Sydney, she also shrank from the thought of becoming a spinster schoolma'am.
From Time Magazine Archive
There he invited aboard his private car Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran, the first schoolma'am of whom he has any recollection.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Go joy-ridin’ with you, Mr. Stedman?” responded the schoolma’am.
From Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys by Emerson, Alice B.
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