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evening school

noun
  1. night school.
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Origin of evening school

First recorded in 1815–25
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for evening school

Historical Examples

  • There he went to an evening-school to learn French, paying only for the hours he attended.

    The Royal Institution

    Bence Jones

  • Ways must be found for extending the evening-school facilities.

  • An evening-school had been opened for boys too large to stay at home evenings, and just the right age to fall into temptations.

    Hope Mills

    Amanda M. Douglas

  • Another custom of the place I also fell in with, which was, to keep an evening-school.