Etymology

basbleu

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Today it means: A bluestocking (a literary woman). Full definition →

French bas-bleu ← English bluestocking
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The story

  1. English · derived frombluestocking
  2. French · borrowed frombas-bleu
  3. English todaybasbleu

Borrowed from French bas-bleu, from bas (“stocking”) + bleu (“blue”), itself a calque of English bluestocking.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.