This week's theme: words related to teaching, learning, and schools.
parietal (puh-RY-i-tl) noun
1. Usually plural, regulations governing visiting privileges
of the opposite sex in dormitories of a college campus.
2. A wall of a body part or cavity.
adjective
1. Of or relating to campus regulations regarding dormitory visits.
2. Of or relating to the various walls in the body or related bones.
[From Latin paries (wall).]
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"A group of students at Simon's Rock, part of Bard College, is fighting
the parietal rules against nonresident students' staying overnight in
single-sex freshmen dormitories."
The New York Times; Parietal Rules Under Attack at Special School;
Dec 17, 1989.
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