Balliol

[ beyl-yuhl, bey-lee-uhl ]

noun

1. a college of Oxford University, founded before 1268.

Balliol

/ ˈbeɪlɪəl /

noun

1. See Baliol

Example Sentences

“Balliol rhymes,” mini-verses about people: My name is Lady Liberty.

From Washington Post

Rachel Johnson, the UK prime minister's sister and another Oxford contemporary, recently raised eyebrows when she recalled spotting Ghislaine Maxwell across the Balliol junior common room - "a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris's thigh."

From BBC

Originally from Oxford and the daughter of two academics, Dame Cressida read forestry and agriculture at the university's Balliol College before joining the Met in 1983.

From BBC

With his carefully tousled hair that looks as though his barber used pruning shears, his shambolic manner of an unmade bed walking, and his louche lifestyle, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson — Eton; Balliol College, Oxford University — brings to mind Dolly Parton’s quip “You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.”

From Washington Post

Rachel Johnson, the UK prime minister's sister and another Oxford contemporary, recently raised eyebrows when she recalled spotting Ghislaine Maxwell across the Balliol junior common room - "a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris's thigh."

From BBC