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Word: queendom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...city of Woonsocket's quick abandonment of the term personhole for manhole [Oct. 2] gives hope that the United Kingdom can avoid the temptation to change its designation periodically to United Queendom or permanently to United Crowndom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...then, would she reconcile her quest for the kingdom of highest literary standards with a championship of women's rights that might promise a queendom of intellectual anarchy? Her lecture, it emerged, was no attempt to confront contemporary women's literature on shared, upto-date grounds of counter-culture, or politics, economics and sociology. She embarked instead on a delightfully meandering journey through literary history. Along the way, she did not visit the obscure artistic achievements of some long-forgotten authoresses, nor mouldering collections of poetry by some oppressed New England saint; she preferred to scrutinize fictional heroines familiar...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Against the Feminist Telescope | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

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