单词 | leave-out day |
释义 | > as lemmasleave-out day leave-out n. at some public schools (esp. Winchester College), permission to go out of the school and its grounds; also attributive in leave-out day (cf. leave day n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > from school play1649 leave day1817 leave-out1854 society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > permission to go out of school leave-out1854 1854 J. Keble Let. 2 June in J. T. Coleridge Mem. Rev. J. Keble (1869) xvii. 394 When he comes here on leave-out days. 1860 Littell's Living Age 11 Feb. 327/2 He has no one to get him leave out. 1866 R. B. Mansfield School-Life at Winchester College xii. 167 We got leave out for the afternoon. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 164 I've got leave-out. 1955 Times 18 Aug. 10/6 When I was in College at Winchester, one of our favourite pastimes used to be hitch-hiking on leave-out days. These were free days during term when we could do as we liked. 2007 M. Wolfers Thomas Hodgkin i. 22 Winchester boys were allowed holidays, called leave out days. < as lemmas |
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