Day-scholar

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pupil who attends a day school.
  2. 2
    A pupil who attends a boarding school during the day, but lives at home.

    "My intimacy with these sisters goes back as far as my school days at Madame Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar."

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"My intimacy with these sisters goes back as far as my school days at Madame Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar."

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