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What is a schoolmarm?

What is a schoolmarm? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US, slang) A woman who is a teacher, especially a teacher in a schoolhouse; may carry the connotation she is severe.
  2. A person, male or female, who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers of the old times, such as strict enforcement of arbitrary rules.
  3. (forestry) A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.
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But now she was standing behind the bench, looking down at me in a pose that was part schoolmarm and part Southern hanging judge.
It was an ice cream float gone guileful, a schoolmarm with a swagger.
The problem with me is that when I talk about my mission, I sound deadly serious because I'm a former schoolmarm.
Maybe the cowboy in us prefers the saloon tart to the civilizing schoolmarm.
The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
That must have been mighty close to a drowndin' the schoolmarm got at South Fork.

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