Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A female teacher of a school; a schoolmistress.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic A schoolmistress.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A schoolmistress.
Etymologies
- school + dame (Wiktionary)
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“His mother, the village schooldame, brought him up until, after taking a second husband, she sent him to live and work at the farm of her brother-in-law, William Austin, in nearby Sapiston.”
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