haute école
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Etymology edit
Feminine of haut (“high”) + école (“school”) (from Latin schola); perfectly parallel to Dutch hogeschool; compare high school.
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haute école f (plural hautes écoles)
- (France) Very academic, high-level, equitation style school of higher education
- (Belgium) a school of higher education, academic but not ranked as a university