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Finishing school   /fˈɪnɪʃɪŋ skul/   Listen
Finishing school

noun
1.
A private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities.





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"Finishing school" Quotes from Famous Books



... F. Vining, was bereft of his proper brogue; but this loss was the less felt, as Mr. Gough personated the English Major with the rale Tipperary tongue. Mrs. Grosdenap was a perfect governess in the hands of Mrs. Clifford, and the hoydens she presided over exhibited true specimens of a finishing school, especially Miss P. Horton;—that careful and pleasing artiste, who stamps character upon everything she does, and individuality upon everything she says. In short, all the parts in the "Boarding School" are so well acted, that one cannot help regretting when it breaks up for ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 12, 1841 • Various
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... age of fifteen, and three years prior to the opening of this story, under the kindly guardianship of her uncle, Lizzie Heartwell entered the popular finishing school of Madam Truxton. ...
— Leah Mordecai • Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott
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