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Definition of Finishing school
1. Noun. A private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities.
Definition of Finishing school
1. Noun. (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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finishing School
Literary usage of Finishing school
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vocational Education of Girls and Women by Albert H. Leake (1918)
"£he high school a finishing school. The high school is also a finishing school,
and the tendency for it to become so is more and more apparent. ..."
2. Training the Girl by William Arch McKeever (1914)
"THE "finishing school FOR GIRLS" There was once a possible excuse for the ...
The old type of finishing school was an institution which' transformed ..."
3. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1904)
"Here the high school is regarded as a finishing school; there as a preparatory
... The high school is now the finishing school, and it will remain the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"Of cadet schools there are seven in all, of which six are preparatory and one a
finishing school. Boys may enter the preparatory schools at ten years of age ..."
5. Systematic Technical Education for the English People by John Scott Russell (1869)
"finishing school for skilled trades — III. Night courses for the extended education
of Division II.— List of teachers. — Six teachers for special local ..."
6. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"Whether the Army gives the finishing school work at the cantonment or at special
schools designed for the purpose, the evening classes here proposed should ..."
7. The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade: Count O'Connell, and Old Irish Life by Mary Anne Bianconi O'Connell (1892)
"... spinning-song—Rhymed dialogue with a tenant—Her elder children—Maurice goes
to a finishing school— Descriptive letter to John—John marries Mary Falvey, ..."
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