ˈboarding-school
A school in which scholars are boarded as well as taught. Also attrib.
| 1677 Lond. Gaz. No. 1180/4 In Oxford there is set up a Boarding School for young Gentlewomen (by John Waver, Master in the Art of Dancing). 1713 Swift Cadenus and V. 767 A blockhead with melodious voice In boarding-schools can have his choice. 1812 Examiner 28 Dec. 827/1 Every..boarding-school miss. 1884 Pall Mall G. 30 Aug. 5/1 History treated from the boarding-school point of view. |