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Definition of Games-mistress
1. Noun. The teacher in charge of games at a school.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Games-mistress
Literary usage of Games-mistress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Schools for Girls: A Series of Papers on Their History, Aims, and by M. A. Douglas, Sara Annie Burstall (1911)
"Sometimes there is a special games' mistress, who does nothing else but that and
gymnastics. Elsewhere an academic mistress organizes the games; ..."
2. The School World (1907)
"Many schools have a regular games mistress, trained at such a place as the Dartford
Training College or the Anstey College, Birmingham, who also teaches ..."
3. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Thi- games mistress was trained by a cricket professional, in summer one hour a
day, on an average, is devoted to compulsory cricket, and in winter one hour ..."
4. Special Reports on Educational Subjects by Great Britain Board of Education (1898)
"Some schools engage a special games' mistress, and it is certainly a good ...
I, however, rather deprecate calling her a games' mistress, and giving her no ..."
5. Papers on Moral Education: Communicated to the First International Moral by Gustav Spiller (1909)
"With the acquisition of a playground and the appointment of a games mistress,
these difficulties were so minimised as to impress her with the value of ..."
6. Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions by Edith Julia Morley (1914)
"VI THE TEACHING OF GYMNASTICS No school of any importance is considered properly
equipped unless the staff includes a gymnastic and games mistress. ..."
7. Pindar in English Verse by Pindar, Henry Francis Cary (1833)
"O MOTHER of the golden-crowned games, Mistress of truth, Olympia, at whose shrines,
When the burnt victim flames; For omens searching, many a seer divines ..."
8. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"There is even—0 tempora, O mores—a games-mistress in a boys' school! The very
Government offices—immemorial abodes of the barnacle—have women clerks and ..."
9. Public Schools for Girls: A Series of Papers on Their History, Aims, and by M. A. Douglas, Sara Annie Burstall (1911)
"Sometimes there is a special games' mistress, who does nothing else but that and
gymnastics. Elsewhere an academic mistress organizes the games; ..."
10. The School World (1907)
"Many schools have a regular games mistress, trained at such a place as the Dartford
Training College or the Anstey College, Birmingham, who also teaches ..."
11. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Thi- games mistress was trained by a cricket professional, in summer one hour a
day, on an average, is devoted to compulsory cricket, and in winter one hour ..."
12. Special Reports on Educational Subjects by Great Britain Board of Education (1898)
"Some schools engage a special games' mistress, and it is certainly a good ...
I, however, rather deprecate calling her a games' mistress, and giving her no ..."
13. Papers on Moral Education: Communicated to the First International Moral by Gustav Spiller (1909)
"With the acquisition of a playground and the appointment of a games mistress,
these difficulties were so minimised as to impress her with the value of ..."
14. Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions by Edith Julia Morley (1914)
"VI THE TEACHING OF GYMNASTICS No school of any importance is considered properly
equipped unless the staff includes a gymnastic and games mistress. ..."
15. Pindar in English Verse by Pindar, Henry Francis Cary (1833)
"O MOTHER of the golden-crowned games, Mistress of truth, Olympia, at whose shrines,
When the burnt victim flames; For omens searching, many a seer divines ..."
16. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"There is even—0 tempora, O mores—a games-mistress in a boys' school! The very
Government offices—immemorial abodes of the barnacle—have women clerks and ..."
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