pupillage

British  

/ ˈpjuːpɪlɪdʒ /

noun

1. the condition of being a pupil or duration for which one is a pupil

2. (in England) the period spent by a newly called barrister in the chambers of a member of the bar

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Example Sentences

Both, you can tell, have studied their respective masters with scrupulous care, and the results of their pupillage are plain to see.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 28, 2018

He passed his bar exams only to find he was unable to secure a pupillage at a chambers.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2018

Under the yarde: under the rod; in pupillage; a phrase properly used of children, but employed by the Clerk in the prologue to his tale.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Both these princes remained in a state of pupillage till the age of twenty three.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir

This is clearly at direct issue with Ben Jonson, whose introduced phrases, "pleaded nonage," "wardship," "pupillage," &c., seem to smack too much of legal technology to countenance the supposition of poetic license.

From Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George