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• n  a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

• But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger.
• Thomas plays the crotchety schoolmarm, proclaiming that students should not have any free-speech rights in school.
• Your article on schoolmarm Campbell's one-room Iowa school brings back many, fond memories.

• schoolma'am
• schoolmistress
• mistress

News & Articles

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• Laura Fugney
  Words I do not traditionally associate with Laura Linney: Yikes, oof, schoolmarm, NOOOOOO, pinafore, crazyshitasticalblouse, smock, shirtvomit. Thanks, Thursday, for giving me a new experience.
  June 13, 2013 - Go Fug Yourself

Quotes

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• Elisabeth Shue in New York Times
  SORRY, I have to be the schoolmarm,said Elisabeth Shue - she who was nominated for an Oscar for playing a prostitute in "Leaving Las Vegas" - as she donned prescription glasses in La Esquina, the dimly-lighted basement restaurant.
• David Pogue in BBC News
  What's really nuts is that the restrictions even stomp on your own musical creations,wrote Pogue, describing the protection as "draconian" and "as strict as a 19th-Century schoolmarm".