Definition of "charity-school" []

• A school maintained by voluntary contributions or bequests, for educating, and in many cases for lodging, feeding, and clothing, poor children. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Now all this came of that vile John Fry; I knew it as well as possible; his tongue was worse than the clacker of a charity-school bell, or the ladle in the frying-pan, when the bees are swarming."
• "This lady said, “they are like a string of charity-school girls going to church on a Sunday morning.”"
• "Margo sighed, acutely conscious of her charity-school costume and short, dyed hair; but she didn't let that spoil the fun of watching the "quality" pass by."