convent school

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Noun

convent school (plural convent schools)

  1. A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 558:
      He smoothed the letter open and began to read. It was quite a short letter, written in convent-school English.
  2. (India, proscribed) Any English-medium school.