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noun
A member of the Lucy Stone League, a women's rights organization founded in 1921 that promoted the idea of women keeping their maiden names after marriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From Lucy + Stone + -er, after Lucy Stone (1818–1893), the first married woman in the United States to carry her birth name through life.
