Blue-coat School, a name commonly given to Christ's Hospital in London, and to similar schools in Bristol and elsewhere, the dress of whose scholars is a long dark-blue gown with a belt round the waist, and yellow stockings. Such dress is just that of boys in the first half of the 16th century. See CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
Blue-coat School
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 246
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