Definition of "schoolmarm" []

• A woman teacher, especially one who is regarded as strict or old-fashioned. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Are you a woman in her thirties or a schoolmarm from the thirties?"
• "She piles her hair up in a librarian's bun and wears what she calls "schoolmarm" glasses (one blogger compared her to "Tina Fey's sexier sister")."
• "Whiteside was set to wed "schoolmarm" Elaine Fair."