单词 | poor child |
释义 | > as lemmaspoor child poor child n. now historical and rare a pupil at a charity school (see child n. 4a; in quots. used chiefly with reference to Queen's College, Oxford). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > charity school pupil childOE blue coat boy1609 blue coat1619 poor child1626 blue boy1649 blue coat girl1695 blue1803 1626 T. Crosfield Diary 17 June (1935) 4 The same day there were elected..3 Fellowes..4 Masters..6 Tabitors 6 poore children 1 Servitour. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 216 [They] were all poor Children, Taberders and afterwards Fellows of Queen's College. 1891 H. Morley Spectator I. Introd. p. iv Lancelot [Addison] got his education as a poor child in the Appleby Grammar School. 2005 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic ed.) at Hudson, Michael He went up to Queen's College, Oxford, as ‘a poor child’. < as lemmas |
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