convent school

English

Noun

convent school (plural convent schools)

1. A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 558:

     He smoothed the letter open and began to read. It was quite a short letter, written in convent-school English.

2. (India, proscribed) Any English-medium school.