hedge-school

noun

1. Irish history a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter

Derived Forms

• ˈhedge-schoolˌmaster, noun

Example Sentences

For further information on this matter the reader is referred to the "Hedge School."

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Look at that B, and that G; their formae formativae never were begotten in a hedge-school.

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The hedge-school in its most elemental state was an open-air daily assemblage of youths in pursuit of knowledge.

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Hence comes the proverb, to play truant (faire l'ecole buissonniere—to go to hedge school).

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In my own case, its first development was noticed in the hedge-school which I attended.

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