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schoolroom|ˈskuːlruːm|
[f. school n.1 + room n.]
1. A room in which a school is held. Also, a room in a private house, in which the children of the family receive instruction or prepare their lessons. Also, in fig. phr. in the schoolroom: of a young lady, not yet ‘out’ (cf. out adv. 26 b (a)).
1773P. V. Fithian Jrnl. & Lett. (1900) 61, I have to myself in the Evening..my Liberty, either to continue in the School room, in my own Room, or to sit over at the great House. 1775Ash, Schoolroom, a room in which a school is kept. 1812E. Weeton Let. July (1969) II. 58, I breakfast with Mr. & Mrs. Armitage, and then return again to the children till 9, we go into the school-room till 12. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam Ded. iii, Until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices. 1837H. Pidgeon Mem. Shrewsbury 144 The school rooms are in the rear of the buildings, in which twenty-five boys and as many girls receive their education. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair viii, We have a schoolroom on the second floor, with my bed⁓room leading into it on one side, and that of the young ladies on the other. 1857C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. viii. 126 ‘I suppose her daughters are not come out yet?’ ‘Her own are in the school-room; but there is a step-daughter who is much admired.’ 1860M. Arnold Rep. Elem. Schools (1889) 86 This..may excuse individual managers for the dirty and unhealthy state of their school-rooms. 1867W. L. Collins Public Schools 176 The noble schoolroom [at Westminster], nearly a hundred feet in length. 1952M. Laski Village ii. 35 The younger daughter in the schoolroom, the elder about to blossom forth. 1977C. Fremlin Spider-Orchid vii. 51 She's not ‘out’ yet, she's only in the schoolroom still.
2. Accommodation for teaching.
1891Century Dict. s.v., The city needs more school-room.
3. attrib.
1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park I. xviii. 353 Very good school-room chairs, not made for a theatre, I dare say. 1847A. Brontë Agnes Grey xv. 242 There was the bell—the odious bell for the school-room dinner. 1857C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. xiv. 227 The school-room maid..was busy unpacking in a corner of the room. Ibid. xv. 238 She repaired to the school-room tea. 1875L. Troubridge Jrnl. 25 Dec. in J. Hope-Nicholson Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 133, I..found everyone congregated round the school-room table. 1923W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. ii. 17 The family can always come up if it likes for schoolroom tea. 1948F. Thompson Still glides Stream iv. 91 They should have heard the music, the schoolroom piano and two violins. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xvi. 343 Children whose schoolroom attitude to history is antipathetic. 1969D. Holman-Hunt My Grandfather xviii. 232 She would get rid of the schoolroom maid and order some new dresses. 1972W. Labov Lang. in Inner City i. 30 The subjects are asked to change certain sentences to correct schoolroom English. 1975R. Player Let's talk of Graves iv. 118 We had schoolroom tea in deathly silence.
Hence ˈschoolroomy a., characteristic of or resembling a schoolroom.
1895W. S. Churchill Let. 3 Aug. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1967) I. Compan. i. viii. 581 A very lovely—but stupid and school roomy girl—to whom I talked a good deal. 1975D. Daniell Interpreter's House ii. 20 A bit schoolroomy, possibly, and a little too much the work of a belle-lettrist. |