pedagoguette
English
Etymology
pedagogue + -ette
Noun
pedagoguette (plural pedagoguettes)
- (Nabokov) A schoolmistress.
- 1935, Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
- […] and I saw below me, like pale daisies, the upturned faces of stupefied children, and the pedagoguette, who seemed to be falling backward […]
- 1935, Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading