convent school

noun — 2 senses

convent school

noun
1

A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.

  • He smoothed the letter open and began to read. It was quite a short letter, written in convent-school English.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 558:
2

India, Proscribed Any English-medium school.

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