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Finishing school

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  1. 1
    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. dated

    ""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."

  2. 2
    a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities wordnet

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