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Bloomerism
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English
Etymology
From en Bloomer ism, after women's-rights advocate Amelia Bloomer Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894).
Noun
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en historical sometimes derogatory Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.
en 1851 Punch XXI July–December 217 https://books.google.com/books?id=JAYDAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA217&dq=%22Bloomerism%22&hl=&cd=11&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Bloomerism%22&f=false Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment Thomas Carlyle Thomas Snarlyle 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.
Related terms
en bloomer
en bloomers
en eponyms
en Feminism