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Boarding school   /bˈɔrdɪŋ skul/   Listen
Boarding school

noun
1.
A private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught.  Antonym: day school.






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"Boarding school" Quotes from Famous Books



... a boarding school know how heavy and fetid is the atmosphere of a dormitory in the early winter morning, when fifty boys have been breathing the same air again and again during the whole of the night. And yet, who suspected this until he had ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal

... of 1799 he was sent to London, entrusted to the medical care of Dr. Baillie (brother of Joanna, the dramatist), and placed in a boarding school at Dulwich, under the charge of Dr. Glennie. The physician advised a moderation in athletic sports, which the patient in his hours of liberty was constantly apt to exceed. The teacher—who continued to cherish an affectionate remembrance ...
— Byron • John Nichol

... and to whom she was devoted. She used always to talk of him; he was the only subject about which she could talk freely; and Lili Reinhart had gained her confidence by showing sympathy and pity for the boy living alone in Paris without relations, without friends, at a boarding school. It was partly to pay for his education that Antoinette had accepted a post abroad. But the two children could not live without each other; they wanted to be with each other every day, and the least delay in the delivery of their letters used to make them quite ill with anxiety. ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland

... She is going to boarding school very soon to finish her education. Why, Mary, we have been very remiss. Can you not offer Mr. ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin

... eldest daughter, Natalie, had graduated from the college a year before Molly had entered. It had been a great disappointment to Mrs. Fern that Alice, the youngest daughter, was not inclined to college and had gone to a fashionable boarding school. ...
— Molly Brown's Senior Days • Nell Speed


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