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ˈday-school
a. An elementary week-day school, as distinguished from a Sunday school; or one carried on in the day-time, as distinguished from an evening or night school.
b. A school at which there is no provision for boarding pupils, as distinguished from a boarding school.
a1785in Walpole Letters to Horace Mann (F. Hall). 1816J. Haigh (title), A practical Treatise on Day Schools; exhibiting their defects, and suggesting Hints for their Improvement. 1838in Penny Cycl. XXI. 41 Headings: Number of Children of Working Classes attending..Dame Schools and common Day Schools..Number Uneducated in Week-day Schools. Ibid. 42 Number Attending Day or evening schools only..Both day or evening and Sunday schools. 1841Ibid. XXI. 42/1 They found many thousands who went to neither day nor Sunday schools. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop viii, She maintained a very small day-school for young ladies of proportionate dimensions. 1889R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 39 It was decided that he should be sent to a day-school. Mod. (title) The Girls' Public Day-school Company. |