Definition of "schoolmistress" []

• A woman who is a teacher. (noun)
• A headmistress of a school. (noun)

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• "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."
• "So I went over to the schoolmaster's -- they have herbs there, I know -- but the schoolmistress is a mean woman, though she looks so sweet."
• "It not only called the schoolmistress through the benevolent agencies, and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human development as Edmund"