boarding-school

"I think the whole short collar thing is kind of silly," Mr. Andrews said — part of a "boarding-school look" that is only flattering to skinny men.

The Incredible Shrinking Collar Darrell Hartman 2011

Smith's client Congregation of Priests of the Sacred Heart is the defendant in a dozen boarding-school cases, including one involving the convicted sodomite.

Stephanie Woodard: South Dakota Sex Abuse Scandal: A Peek Inside The Church's Drawers Stephanie Woodard 2011

Cinematic references are so much a part of the culture here that most moviegoers are aware that the boat's name, Zéro de conduite, is an allusion to Jean Vigo's 1933 film about a boarding-school rebellion.

All Aboard for le Cinéma Français Lennox Morrison 2011

One of our top boarding-school students cannot afford much, but his family still brings us a bag of fruit each term as their way of saying "thank you."

The 'Business' of International Aid Jonathan Starr 2011

Unluckily the wage was too small for me to pay my son's boarding-school fees, for which I was now in debt.

Alasdair Gray: My life in pictures Alasdair Gray 2010

Pratt, Samuel Jackson [pseudonym Courtney Melmoth] (1749 – 1814): a colourful, much disliked, man of letters who, when a young clergyman, had eloped with and married a 'boarding-school miss' (NDNB), abandoning the cloth and turning, with little success, to acting.

Index of People 2009

House of Anubis is a boarding-school mystery jointly produced with Nick's U.K. and Belgian channels.

TV channels are churning out more shows for children 2010

Ruth, would be a country school or music teacher in a girls 'boarding-school.

Chapter 13 2010

Though only 44 minutes long, it tells of a boarding-school rebellion in a style by turns anarchic and poetic.

Brief Glimpse of Brilliance From an Abbreviated Life David Mermelstein 2011

Trudeau invented the name Doonesbury by combining doone – boarding-school slang, he says, for "a good-natured dufus, a clueless sort without any mean to them" – with the ending of the name of his friend Charlie Pillsbury.

Garry Trudeau: 'Doonesbury quickly became a cause of trouble' Ed Pilkington 2010