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单词 old-field school
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old-field school
old-field school n. U.S. (now historical) an elementary school built on land previously used for agriculture, esp. in Southern states before the American Civil War (1861–5).
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1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) ii. 10 The first place of education to which George was ever sent, was a little ‘old field school’.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 125 The master of the old field school was one of the regular faculty.
a1901 J. Fiske Ess. Hist. & Lit. (1902) i. vi. 229 His education, obtained in an ‘old-field’ school, consisted of little more than the ‘three R's’.
1973 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 59 989 The college..quickly sank to the level of an old-field school, and in 1871 it simply ceased to function.
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