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St. Trinian's|sənt ˈtrɪnɪənz|
The name of a girls' school invented by the cartoonist Ronald Searle (b. 1920) in 1941. Used absol. and attrib. to designate allusively the characteristic style of hoydenish behaviour, school uniform, etc., of the girls in the cartoons and the subsequent associated books and films.
Searle's daughters attended St. Trinnean's school in Edinburgh.
[1941R. Searle in Lilliput IX. iv. 313 (caption) Owing to the international situation the match with St. Trinian's has been postponed. 1948D. B. Wyndham Lewis in R. Searle Hurrah for St. Trinian's 8 Those typical English Roses, the girls of St. Trinian's, a nightmare synthesis of Roedean, Heathfield and Wycombe Abbey.] 1958Times 20 May 11/4 How the girls of to-day, finishing at St. Trinian's or taking their degrees at St. Jude's, will smile with affectionate tolerance at these meagre achievements in the scholastic line. 1961Guardian 3 Mar. 10/4 A St Trinian's type of schoolgirl. 1964C. Dale Other People iv. 88 She was big and fat and pasty... In her school uniform..she looked a complete St. Trinian's type. 1972Guardian 25 Jan. 9/2 Louis Feraud..includes a group of dresses called schoolgirl frocks..Lolita lives again, and one longs for the innocence of St Trinian's. 1977‘D. Cory’ Bennett iii. 93 His high-pitched St Trinian's giggle. 1981R. Barnard Sheer Torture xi. 121 Aunt Kate..an overgrown product of St Trinian's. |