| 单词 | leave day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleave day leave day n. at some public schools (esp. Christ's Hospital), a day on which pupils are allowed to go out of the school and its grounds; cf. leave-out day. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > from school play1649 leave day1817 leave-out1854 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. 16 In my friendless wanderings on our leave-days. [Note] The Christ Hospital phrase, not for holidays altogether, but for those on which the boys are permitted to go beyond the precincts of the school. 1894 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 370 Even the periodical leave-days were not unmixed blessings. 1962 Tatler 25 July 179/1 Leave Day is only half a day. Saturday morning lessons come first. 1998 Charles Lamb Bull. Oct. 122 Chetwood's Robert Boyle..formed part of a mythology which Christ's Hospital boys could easily absorb, a mythology which they might first enact first on leave days in expeditions up the New River. < as lemmas |
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