Bloomerism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress. derogatory, historical, sometimes, uncountable
"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 call Bloomerism; a fashion of Sister Jonathan's."
Example
More examples"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 call Bloomerism; a fashion of Sister Jonathan's."
Etymology
From Bloomer + -ism, after women's-rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894).
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