pupilage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pupilage
Example Sentences
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She remembered Clarence Copperhead as a full-grown man, beyond, it seemed to her, the age at which pupilage was possible.
From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Down to the year 1832, the system of common law pleading and practice supplied the student, during the greater period of his pupilage, with little else than the most degrading and unprofitable drudgery.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
A pretty notion the Signorina must form of your enslaved state of pupilage, when she hears you ask that question.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
During his pupilage he secured his first engagement as an actor at a little theatre on the Boulevard du Crime, called the Variétés Amusantes—a theatre long since dead.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
Because my days of nominal pupilage are over.
From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion
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