finishing school
Noun
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Noun
finishing school (plural finishing schools)
- (dated) A private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society.
- 1998, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Nobel Prize Women in Science, Carol Publishing Group, page 3,
- Until the 1920s, most European high schools for girls were finishing schools.
- 1998, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Nobel Prize Women in Science, Carol Publishing Group, page 3,
- charm school
- Russian: институ́т благоро́дных деви́ц
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