📚 noun • entry_id 49287
finishing school
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escuela de modales / señoritas
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.
Until the 1920s, most European high schools for girls were finishing schools.
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