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hedge-school

noun

  1. Irish history a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈhedge-schoolˌmaster, noun
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Example Sentences

For further information on this matter the reader is referred to the "Hedge School."

Look at that B, and that G; their formae formativae never were begotten in a hedge-school.

The hedge-school in its most elemental state was an open-air daily assemblage of youths in pursuit of knowledge.

Hence comes the proverb, to play truant (faire l'ecole buissonniere—to go to hedge school).

In my own case, its first development was noticed in the hedge-school which I attended.

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