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school-age en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of school age.
One of the gloomy features of village-life is the absence of young men and young women from the scene. So soon as children have passed school-age, they are drafted off in large numbers into the towns for service or other employment.
1879, William Ogle, “XXII. Observations on Outbreaks of Diphtheria in Rural Districts”, in William Howship Dickinson, Thomas Pickering Pick, editors, St. George's Hospital Reports, volume 9, London: J. & A. Churchil, page 716:
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