hedge-school
noun
Irish history a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
Derived forms of hedge-school
- hedge-schoolmaster, noun
Words Nearby hedge-school
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How to use hedge-school in a sentence
For further information on this matter the reader is referred to the "Hedge School."
The Ned M'Keown Stories | William CarletonLook at that B, and that G; their formae formativae never were begotten in a hedge-school.
Westward Ho! | Charles KingsleyThe hedge-school in its most elemental state was an open-air daily assemblage of youths in pursuit of knowledge.
The Glories of Ireland | Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. LennoxHence comes the proverb, to play truant (faire l'ecole buissonniere—to go to hedge school).
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times | Francois Pierre Guillaume GuizotIn my own case, its first development was noticed in the hedge-school which I attended.
The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim | William Carleton
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