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English
Etymology 1
From school + -age.
Noun
schoolage
- (archaic) A fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher.
1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals , London: Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068:Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
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Etymology 2
Noun
schoolage (plural schoolages)
- Alternative form of school age.
1994, Anne S. Lipscomb, Kathleen S. Hutchison, Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 28:After the Civil War, in order to determine how much revenue would be needed to educate all of the children of the state, a census was taken of schoolage children.