scholehouse
English
Noun
scholehouse (plural scholehouses)
- Obsolete spelling of schoolhouse
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:
- M. Wotton, a man milde of nature, with soft voice, and fewe wordes, inclined to M. Secretaries iudgement, and said, in mine opinion, the Scholehouse should be in deede, as it is called by name, the house of playe and pleasure, and not of feare and bondage: and as I do remember, so saith Socrates in one place of Plato.
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