finishing schoolnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ.ɪŋ ˌskuːl/us/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ.ɪŋ ˌskuːl/a school or college where young women from rich families learn how to behave in high-class society
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Types of school
- alma mater
- business school
- charter school
- coed
- coeducational
- college
- comprehensive school
- convent school
- faith school
- fee-paying
- graduate school
- grant-maintained school
- high school
- independent school
- infant
- junior school
- madrasa
- military academy
- parochial school
- single-sex
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Examples from literature
- I wondered if this could really be an inheritance from her well-nerved father or the result of her years as teacher in a finishing school for young ladies.
- Some of this is acquired at fashionable finishing schools or from foreign secretaries and servants.
- The majority of those who came did so not because they contemplated purchasing extensively, but because they wished to see what effect the fashionable finishing school had had upon the girl.
- This is a finishing school for young ladies.
- What Ginger needs is a finishing school, and he's going to start right in attending one this very day.