board school
British (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
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How to use board school in a sentence
I am in favour of no one paying rates unless he has children actually at a board school.
Annie was still a junior teacher in the Board-school, earning about four shillings a week.
Sons and Lovers | David Herbert LawrenceThey should have sent me to a board school, and then I should have been a bounder myself, and nothing would have mattered.
The Making of a Prig | Evelyn SharpThere's a question from a feller as 'as studied Latin with me at the board school!
Mr. Punch on the Continong | VariousThe board school's new slide ran along the gutter a good way out into the grammar school street.
One of Life's Slaves | Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie
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