charity school
an elementary school, usually funded by charitable persons or organizations, for those unable to pay: a forerunner of the public-school system.
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How to use charity school in a sentence
If her teaching was no better than her looks, Miss Lucy might as well go to the parish charity school!
East Lynne | Mrs. Henry WoodIn Cross Street there is an old charity school, with stuccoed figures of a charity boy and girl on the frontage.
Holborn and Bloomsbury | Sir Walter BesantWe had a great many fights with the street boys and the boys of a neighbouring charity school.
Reveries over Childhood and Youth | William Butler YeatsEleanor is no more fitted to be trusted with such an amount of money in her own hands than is a charity-school girl.
Barchester Towers | Anthony TrollopeElsewhere he found in the choir gallery an ‘exhausted charity school’ of four boys and two girls.
Charles Dickens and Music | James T. Lightwood
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