charity-schooln.
A school, supported by charitable bequests or voluntary contributions, for the free or cheap education of children of the poor. Also attributive.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor
hospital1552
charity-school1682
Blue Coat Hospital1700
blue coat school1706
poor school1727
national school1814
industrial school1827
ragged school1843
kitchengarten1877
barrack school1894
1682 March (title) Erecting a Charity School; a Charity Sermon.
1710 Smalridge (title) An account of Charity Schools erected in Great Britain and Ireland, with the Benefactions thereto.
1715 R. Nelson Addr. Persons of Quality 163.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 317 I was a kind of Charity School-Boy.
1835 A. Ure 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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