schoolmistress
- n a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
- In the most male-dominated field in television second only to the pro-football announcer booth the Brits deserve a little credit for shipping this stern schoolmistress .
- A venerable schoolmistress who rides horseback and thinks vigorously at 70.
- The schoolmistress herself discovers one of the bodies on an outing with her class.