schoolmistress
Americannoun
noun
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See -ess.
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Origin of schoolmistress
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Thadden, the former schoolmistress, had vouched for a newcomer named Paul Reckzeh who attended the party.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
Ms. Mazzie faces a perhaps more formidable challenge in taking on the schoolmistress duties of Mrs. Anna, the Welsh-born tutor to the children of the King of Siam.
From New York Times • May 22, 2016
A ruffled oversize 19th-century schoolmistress shirt in check with gray skirt was - daringly - twinned with pink and black tiger print stripper boots and space-age eye makeup.
From Washington Times • Mar. 9, 2016
This is provided by Mary Steenburgen’s schoolmistress, a fellow admirer of Jules Verne who likes the old boy’s piercing eyes but thinks he’s telling fibs.
From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2015
The schoolmistress had been suffering from terrible headaches that were, Xan discovered, the result of a growth in the center of her brain.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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