(US, slang) A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict.
The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.
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(by extension) Someone who acts like a schoolmarm; a person acting harsh and stern.
I never thought of [my granfather] as "colorful." Matter of fact, he was an unsavory old coot - not a good influence for a growing boy by the standards of those times. Mmm, there was something about a young schoolmarm and him in the town…
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(forestry) A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.
Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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