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From the 1928 OED:
Grecian:
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2. One learned in the Greek language; a Greek scholar. [Attestations omitted]
b. A boy in the highest class of Christ's Hospital (the Blue-coat school).
Blue-Coat:
Formerly the dress of servants and the lower orders; hence of almoners and charity children. [Attestations omitted]
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(More fully, Blue-coat boy): A scholar ...
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