Harrovian
Americanadjective
noun
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Harrovian
1860–65; < New Latin Harrovi ( a ) Harrow + -an
Example Sentences
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Put together by other Old Harrovians, bound in deep Harrovian blue, it was called Winston Churchill and Harrow, Memories of the Prime Minister's Schooldays, 1888-1802.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Simla, India's cool summer capital, an old Harrovian, Indian Nationalist Jawaharlal Nehru, and other Indian leaders will confer this week with Viceroy Lord Wavell on the interim plan for India's independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir H. Walter Gilbey, Bart., famed horseman and gin distiller, is a Harrovian, but he too has his principles.
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His marks were only middling and he disliked the classics, then the sine qua non of Harrovian scholarship.*
From Time Magazine Archive
One does not hear nearly as much as our forefathers did of the "old Harrovian," "old Arvonian," "old Etonian" claim to this or that unfair advantage or unearnt sympathy.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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