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dame school

noun

dame school

noun
1

Historical A school for children, run by a woman.

  • Young Williams knew nothing more at the age of 18 than what a twopenny Dame's School in the village could teach him.1793, Jane Austen, ‘The Generous Curate’, Juvenilia:
  • He […] was dispatched to a dame school and then to the local grammar school where he first encountered the sacred mysteries of Greek and Latin.2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, page 189:

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