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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



... North Sea was my finishing school of seamanship before I launched myself on the wider oceans. Confined as it is in comparison with the vast stage of this water-girt globe, I did not know it in all its parts. My class-room was the region of the English East Coast which, ...
— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad
... school would give them and everybody else time to consider. They ought never to have left school. It was the very place for luxuriant and overflowing natures like theirs. No doubt Acapulco had such a thing as a finishing school for young ladies in it, and into it the Annas should go, and once in it there they should stay put, thought Mr. Twist in vigorous American, gathering ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim


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