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单词 parlour boarder
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parlour boarder
parlour boarder n. now historical a boarding-school pupil who lives with the family of the principal and has other privileges not shared by the ordinary boarders.
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1768 J. Frere Let. 1 Apr. in John Norton & Sons (1968) 44 Your Cousin Baylor..is with Mr. Chalmers as a Parlour Boarder;..we all thought an Academy much the properest place for him.
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. ii. 12 The Prieure of this convent..had received, as parlour boarders, some English ladies of very suspicious characters.
1812 Theatr. Inquisitor 1 211 I am a parlour boarder at Mrs. Twizzle's school.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xx. 176 Surely it must be Miss Swartz, the parlour boarder.
1997 Manawatu Evening Standard 3 May 9 Harriet Smith, a pretty, docile, innocent 17-year-old, a parlour boarder in the neighbouring village.
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