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dame school

noun

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  1. A school for children, run by a woman.

    • Young Williams knew nothing more at the age of 18 than what a twopenny Dame's School in the village could teach him.
    • He […] was dispatched to a dame school and then to the local grammar school where he first encountered the sacred mysteries of Greek and Latin.

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