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ragged school

noun

  1. (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Together with one or two fellow students he conducted a ragged school in an old stable.

There is a penny bank established in connection with the ragged-school, and last year there were deposits to the amount of 278l.

It was here that in 1843 the Ragged School movement in London commenced its wonderful and praiseworthy career.

The committee of the Ragged School Union took the initiative to do honour to their president.

My Australian friend was at that time wrestling with a real ragged school on the Highway on Sunday afternoons.

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