schoolmistress
noun
a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
schoolmistressy
-
a word derived from
schoolmistress.
Example Sentences
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As the years passed by she would become staid and prim; schoolmistressy manner; the girls would speak of her by derisive nicknames...
From A College Girl by William H. C. Groome
