convent school en · NOUN
Meanings
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A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
He smoothed the letter open and began to read. It was quite a short letter, written in convent-school English.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 558:
- (India, proscribed) Any English-medium school.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| convent schools | Number=Plur | lexicographic |