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- noun Plural form of
undermaster .
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Examples
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State schools proper, the selection of undermasters does not rest with the head, or director, as he is called, at all.
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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Keate ruled, unaidedfor the undermasters were few and of no accountby sheer force of character.
Dr. Arnold 1918
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But the magistrates of Edinburgh, not knowing the treasure they possessed in Dr. Adam, encouraged a savage fellow, called Nicol, one of the undermasters, in insulting his person and authority.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824
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Quarterly on my school-book, by one of the Eton undermasters, who, like Demetrius the Silversmith, seems alarmed for the gains of his occupation.”
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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_Quarterly_ on my school-book, by one of the Eton undermasters, who, like Demetrius the Silversmith, seems alarmed for the gains of his occupation. "
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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