Schoolgirldom

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of schoolgirlhood. uncountable

    "He had also brought down a further reinforcement in the shape of his spinster-aunt, and fair young sister; the latter had surprised him, as he said, one fine morning, by throwing off the shackles of schoolgirldom, in which he had almost left her to oblivion."

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"He had also brought down a further reinforcement in the shape of his spinster-aunt, and fair young sister; the latter had surprised him, as he said, one fine morning, by throwing off the shackles of schoolgirldom, in which he had almost left her to oblivion."

Etymology

From schoolgirl + -dom.

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