convent school

noun

A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.

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Meanings

nounconvent school (plural convent schools)

plural convent schools

  1. A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.

    He smoothed the letter open and began to read. It was quite a short letter, written in convent-school English.

    1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 558
  2. IndiaproscribedAny English-medium school.
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