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Lucy Stoner
[ stoh-ner ]
noun
- a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone ( def 5 ).
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Lucy Stoner1
Example Sentences
There's patriarchy in a woman's "maiden name", invariably her father's unless her mother was a Lucy Stoner and only her brother took her father's surname.
When he answered and addressed her as 鈥淢iss Mackay,鈥 she replied, 鈥淥h, no鈥攊t鈥檚 Mrs. Berlin. I鈥檓 not a Lucy Stoner. The fact is I shan鈥檛 be able to get my piece in on time. I鈥檓 leaving town in about twenty minutes.鈥
"I don't think you need any grounds in Mexico," said shambling, amiable Columnist Heywood Broun in admitting that he had been divorced two months ago in Nogales by dreamy-eyed Ruth Hale, No. 1 Lucy Stoner.
Though no Lucy Stoner, Mrs. Wilson kept her maiden name in public so as not to embarrass her husband with her political activities.
One day later, Miss Jones tells the world that she is a "Lucy Stoner," that she intends to keep her maiden name.
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