école

American  

[ey-kawl] / eɪˈkɔl /

noun

French.

plural

écoles

1. school.

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Example Sentences

A chance meeting with Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and lauded for his designs for the Vanderbilt family, led Roth to Hunt’s firm in New York and then to that of the architect Ogden Codman Jr., a tastemaking friend of Edith Wharton.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr Barnier did not attend the elite French École Nationale d’Administration, from which many of the country’s leaders hail – but did make history when, aged 27, he became the youngest MP ever elected.

From BBC

The decision to move the operational headquarters from the outskirts of Paris to the grand, sprawling, “École Militaire,” behind the Eiffel Tower was based on advice from UK police following their experience of the 2012 London Olympics.

From BBC

The fact that the images were in infrared allowed Siegelman and her co-author Patrice Klein of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and the Ecole Normale Superieure to calculate temperature -- bright areas were warmer and dark areas were cooler.

From Science Daily

These uncomfortable nights paid off - after graduating in 2003 the soon-to-be-star was accepted into Ivory Coast's leading art school, École des Beaux-Arts.

From BBC