schoolmarms in English

noun
1
a schoolmistress (typically used with reference to a woman regarded as prim, strict, and brisk in manner).
Many black teachers were themselves once students of the typical Yankee schoolmarms .
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1. Synonyms for Bluenoses include puritans, prudes, moralists, wowsers, killjoys, prigs, goody-goodies, old maids, pietists and schoolmarms