exhibitioner
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of exhibitioner
First recorded in 1565–75; exhibition + -er 1
Example Sentences
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It’s bad enough for him to be a day boy, but it would be a jolly sight worse to be an exhibitioner as well.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed
But then, though an exhibitioner himself once, he had now attained to the dignity of a senior, and was probably exempt from the laws binding on new boys.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed
At Cambridge an exhibitioner has no standing in his college different from that of the ordinary 'pensioner', while a scholar is on the Foundation of his college.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
Miller had been a school-board teacher, an exhibitioner at college, and was possessed of a singular though limited intelligence.
From Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
I may mention that he was an exhibitioner under the Intermediate System; and took a gold medal for Greek.
From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan
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