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finishing-school

finishing-school is the alternative spelling of finishing school.

Meaning of finishing school

Noun

finishing school (plural finishing schools)

  1. (dated) 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.1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Eight Cousins
    Synonyms:
    charm school

Forms of finishing-school

pluralfinishing-schools

Questions about finishing-school

What is finishing-school the alternative spelling of?
Finishing-school is the alternative spelling of finishing school.

Words near finishing-school in the dictionary

  1. finishing schools
  2. finishing touch
  3. finishing touches
  4. finishing up
  5. finishing with
  6. finishing-school
  7. finishing-schools
  8. finishings
  9. finishipper
  10. finishippers
  11. finishment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finishing-school (page history and authors); finishing school (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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