schoolfellown.

1440 in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 307 Ȝe and Y where scollfelaus sumtyme at Hylmyster.

1551 R. Robinson in tr. T. More Vtopia Epist. sig. ✠v^v Y^e old acquayntaunce, that was betwene you and me in the time of our childhode, being then scolefellowes togethers.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. f. 11 A Gentleman sometyme my Schoolefellowe at Pad. who in learning was not inferiour to any scholler in the Uniuersitie.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 185 + 1 My two Schoolefellowes.

1690 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. (1699) §70. 97 The emulation of Schoolfellows often puts Life and Industry into young Lads.

1716 N. Blundell Diary 3 May (1952) ix. 164 Mr Carroll being to leave, gave his schoolfellows the Returritions a treat.

1783 W. Cowper Valediction 35 Thy schoolfellow, and partner of thy plays.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlix. 437 The Colonel's countenance..wore as many blushes as the face of a boy of sixteen assumes when he is confronted with his sister's schoolfellows.

1889 H. O'Reilly & J. Y. Nelson Fifty Years on Trail 3 I was always larking about and playing pranks on my schoolfellows.

1937 T. K. Lyle & S. Jackson Pract. Orthoptics Treatm. of Squint i. 3 Most squinting children who are old enough to have experienced the taunts of their schoolfellows suffer considerably from self-consciousness and inferiority.

1962 S. J. Perelman Rising Gorge 231 An old schoolfellow..whom I had met on obedience school where our dogs had struck up a flirtation.

1996 M. Cannon in H. Ritchie New Sc. Writing 14 The sense of camaraderie with one's schoolfellows soon evaporates as one gets dragged out to the front and laid into with gusto.