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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
convent school
noun
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▪ She was a shy, retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby.
▪ She went to a different school from us, a convent school, where they had to wear uniform.
▪ This stood overgrown and decaying in the grounds of a convent school.
▪ Three years at a nice school in Vienna, not too liberated, but at the same time not a convent school.
▪ We shared a room at convent school.
▪ When the time came for Annie to leave the convent school she was recommended for training in child welfare.
▪ You'd been to convent school as well, you said.

Usage examples of "convent school".

She sent Marie to complete her education at a convent school in Lyons.

Aunt Mary-Ben had gone to the same convent school as the one over which Mother Mary-Basil now ruled.

My most gifted pupil of all history, a man you've heard about since you were in a convent school, did the same thing when they tried to make him king.

Not all the girls in the convent school had been as innocent as she, and those who had traded their virtue for knowledge had been most eager to share what they had learned.

He was startled to discover that at the good convent school to which I was sent we were taught to play softball and lacrosse, and that the nuns bundled up their skirts and played with us.

Because she was obsessed with finding Christ and all she could remember from the paintings in the convent school of her youth was that Christ had a beard.