Crossword clues for schoolmistress
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schoolmistress \School"mis`tress\, n. A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
Wiktionary
n. A woman in charge of a school.
WordNet
n. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, mistress]
Usage examples of "schoolmistress".
Miss Robinson and the schoolmistress, he ate: julienne soup, baked and roast meats with suitable accompaniments, two pieces of a tart made of macaroons, butter-cream, chocolate, jam and marzipan, and lastly excellent cheese and pumpernickel.
To his amusement, his sober schoolmistress played like an enthusiastic child, scowling when she miscued, glowing with satisfaction when she potted a ball.
Curious onlookers milled about the schoolhouse steps at the end of the day and unenrolled children popped into the classroom to get a better look at the new schoolmistress.
A few meals were still going out, past the two 203 HOTEL middle-aged women checkers seated primly, like suspicious schoolmistresses, at elevated billing registers.
Why would a schoolmistress need such a perfectly hexed, powerful lock?
Helena, like a derelict student I applied in vain to my old schoolmistress for vindication: On board the Bellerophon, at Sea .
The white forms acquired definition: one of them grew vaguely human in appearance, another went from phallus to ampule to alembic, and the third was clearly taking on the aspect of a bird, an owl with great eyeglasses and erect ears, the hooked beak of an old schoolmistress, a teacher of natural sciences.
After much discussion, it had been decided to hold a conference for all the schoolmistresses on Haven, so that each schoolmistress might then go back to her own students and to those who had been her students, and to their mothers.
If they come by air, the schoolmistresses can all be here in a few days.
More troublesome were the discussions of how the schoolmistresses could find sensible and useful employment educating the future generations and, most important, arranging appropriate marriages for women who were no longer of the nobility.
Flocks of schoolchildren in white shirts and blue trousers or skirts were herded along by schoolmistresses in modest, knee-length dresses.
The schoolmistress was a gray-haired widow, fifty or more, who had outlasted two husbands, and was coping sensibly with her meager chance of finding a third, preferring to support herself rather than live with one of her daughters, stepdaughters, or daughters-in-law.