Bloomerism

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noun

Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.

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Meanings

nounBloomerism (uncountable)
  1. derogatoryhistoricalsometimesuncountableSupport for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.
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    A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land. A sort of shemale dress you call Bloomerism; a fashion of Sister Jonathan's.

    1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217

Origin

From Bloomer + -ism, after women's-rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894).

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Bloomerism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bloomerism

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