day-scholar
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day-scholar (plural day-scholars)
- A pupil who attends a day school.
- A pupil who attends a boarding school during the day, but lives at home.
- 1911, Marian Campbell Gouverneur, As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, D. Appleton, page 216:
- My intimacy with these sisters goes back as far as my school days at Madame Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar.