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day boarder - a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home

dayboy - a day boarder who is a boy

daygirl - a day boarder who is a girl

school-age child, schoolchild, pupil - a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

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Although there were seven girls at the neighbouring school where I was a day boarder, and although they called me little Esther Summerson, I knew none of them at home.

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Pickwick's sincerity, that he should immediately submit to personal restraint; and that gentleman having consented to hold a conference with Miss Tomkins, from the interior of a closet in which the day boarders hung their bonnets and sandwich-bags, he at once stepped into it, of his own accord, and was securely locked in.

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We are investigating whose mistake it is because one is a day scholar and two are day boarders. But the biggest mistake is with the pupils who ran away from school.

3 missing girls found loitering in Mavueni, Kilifi County

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