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finishing school

noun

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  1. A private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural…

    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.

    • "All she needs is a year or two at a fashionable finishing school, so that at eighteen she can come out with éclat," put in Aunt Clara.
    • Until the 1920s, most European high schools for girls were finishing schools.

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