schoolmiss

English

Etymology

From school +‎ miss.

Noun

schoolmiss (plural schoolmisses)

1. (dated) schoolgirl
   • 1867, Mary Jane Holmes, The Cameron Pride: Or, Purified by Suffering, page 31:

     There was nothing there to interest him, he thought, as Euclid and Algebra, French and Rhetoric were bygone things, while young schoolmisses, in braided hair and pantalettes, were shockingly insipid.