school-miss

But Sheila, again, is romantic and mysterious, and believes in visions and dreams; and then I take her to be an affected school-miss.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

This crushing rejoinder was cordially welcomed by Thackeray and the rest of the Staff, who loved to castigate the fopperies of the conceited poetaster, and Lytton, it is said, was not a little astonished at the virility of "school-miss Alfred."

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

You find these books in the desk of the school-miss, in the trunk of the young man, in the steamboat cabin, and on the table of the hotel reception-room.

Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

You find these books in the desk of the school-miss, in the trunk of the young man, in the steamboat cabin, and on the table of the hotel reception-room.

Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867

Every one may agree with M. Papus that Jean Kostka is a very pretty writer in a quiet and shallow way, but, with possibly one exception, he must have withheld the flower of his phenomena in the order of the spirit, for his book is full of sentimental and vapid experiences of the school-miss order, while over the light and spongy soil he has now set the ponderous paving-stones of his new explanation, and toils forward on the road of unreason.

Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

She dreaded his frankness of undressing, of shaving; dreaded his occasional irritated protests of "Don't be a finicking, romantic school-miss.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918