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finishing school

noun

a private school, usually at the high school or junior college level, that teaches young women social graces and prepares them for life in society.

finishing school

a private school for girls that prepares them for society by teaching social graces and accomplishments

First recorded in 1830–40

Le Femme Finishing School helps transwomen find their inner beauty, no matter their age.

And much of the credit to her transformation is owed to a finishing school that caters to women just like her.

“I always read him as an older kind of a guy on the cusp of finishing school and finding a job,” he said.

My take on that is that I always read him as an older kind of a guy on the cusp of finishing school and finding a job.

It's hard to believe but there was an actual finishing school for explorers.

When Avice went back to Sandbourne to the finishing school they kept up the acquaintance in secret.

When Fall comes I mean to take you East and put you in some good finishing school.

It was not a democratic institution, but the finishing school of the future legislators and experts in the science of government.

Adversity was to be the finishing school of his studies—nature the book presented.

The finishing school for our aviators was in France, where the training was conducted in Nieuports and other fighting machines.

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