headmistressy

comparative more headmistressy · superlative most headmistressy · alternative head-mistressy

1. Resembling or characteristic of a headmistress.

   Violet, who was British and sat through my classes with a headmistressy stare, did say she admired the Heidelberg school of painters.

   2007, Margaret Sutherland, Leaving Gaza, Leicester: Ulverscroft, published 2009, →ISBN, page 215

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   The moment passed, and she packed him firmly off with cheerful, conventional, headmistressy remarks about being a good boy, and next term coming soon.

   1956, Frances Martin, Summer Meridian, London: Cassell & Company Ltd, page 190

   So he would have to take her to some expensive Thames-side pub, and in this grand, headmistressy mood she would be sure to order smoked salmon.

   1961, Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →LCCN, page 67

   Synonyms: headmistressly