Balliol
Americannoun
noun
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This week: Write a quatrain or — heck — two of Balliol rhyme about some person.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2020
Protesters waving European flags even gathered outside Balliol College, Mr. Johnson’s alma mater at Oxford.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2019
Johnson went to Oxford in 1983 having, despite his teachers’ misgivings, won a scholarship to study classics at Balliol.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2019
Like Johnson, he is a product of both Eton and Balliol College, at the University of Oxford.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2019
He had grown to be a big man, and was, in those days, strong from rowing for Balliol.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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