finishing school

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a private school where young women from rich families are taught how to behave in fashionable society

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

finishing schoolEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary finishing schoolEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

Nearby in the dictionary

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