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单词 charity-school
释义 charity-school
A school, supported by charitable bequests or voluntary contributions, for the free or cheap education of children of the poor. Also attrib.
1682March (title) Erecting a Charity School; a Charity Sermon.1710Smalridge (title) An account of Charity Schools erected in Great Britain and Ireland, with the Benefactions thereto.1715Nelson Addr. Pers. Qual. 163. 1720 De Foe Capt. Singleton xix. (1840) 319, I was a kind of a charity-school boy.1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 422 In the township of Turton..there is a charity school in which ten or twelve boys are boarded and educated.
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