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dame school en · NOUN
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(historical) A school for children, run by a woman.
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: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:
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