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school figure

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noun

  1. (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.

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Why can one school figure out how to live without such support and the other can’t?

From Washington Times • Mar. 16, 2021

The Captain of the Oppidans and the senior Colleger next to the Captain of the school, figure also in fancy costume, and are called 'Saltbearers.'

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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