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Bloomerism

Bloomerism noun: support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.

Noun

Bloomerism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, historical, sometimes) Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.
    • 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...1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217

Origin of Bloomerism

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

Questions about Bloomerism

What does Bloomerism mean?
Bloomerism means support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.
What part of speech is Bloomerism?
Bloomerism is a noun.

Words near Bloomerism in the dictionary

  1. Bloomberg
  2. Bloombergs
  3. bloomed
  4. bloomer
  5. bloomeries
  6. Bloomerism
  7. Bloomerist
  8. Bloomerists
  9. bloomers
  10. bloomery
  11. bloomery iron

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