| 单词 | ragged school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasragged school ragged school n. (also with capital initials) now historical any of a number of free schools established in the United Kingdom from the early 1840s for the education of the poor (the need for such schools declined with the passing of the 1870 Education Act). ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > school for the poor hospital1552 charity-school1682 Blue Coat Hospital1700 blue coat school1706 poor school1727 national school1814 industrial school1827 ragged school1843 kitchengarten1877 barrack school1894 1843 Times 18 Feb. 1/3 (advt.) Ragged Schools. 1847 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 18 Apr. (1874) II. xiii. 172 There was a public meeting here on the 9th instant in favour of what are now termed ‘ragged schools’. 1862 G. H. Townsend Man. Dates at Shoeblacks The existing ragged school shoeblack brigade was founded in 1851. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Sept. 1/2 The phrase..‘Ragged Schools have become obsolete’, may to some extent lead to the disparagement of the operations of the Ragged School Union. 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. IV. 310/2 [He] supported charity schools (the ‘Ragged Schools’) for children in slums. 2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians xiii. 151 His tireless campaigns to set up ragged schools for slum-dwellers, and to prick the conscience of laissez-faire economists, took over a decade. < as lemmas |
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