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finishing schools

finishing schools is the plural 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

Questions about finishing schools

What is finishing schools the plural of?
Finishing schools is the plural of finishing school.

Words near finishing schools in the dictionary

  1. finishing move
  2. finishing moves
  3. finishing off
  4. finishing out
  5. finishing school
  6. finishing schools
  7. finishing touch
  8. finishing touches
  9. finishing up
  10. finishing with
  11. finishing-school

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