dame school

Noun

Meaning

dame school (plural dame schools)

(now historical) A school for children, run by a woman.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

summer school

Examples

Ferris (1989), p. 25. Thomas's formal education began at Mrs Hole's dame school a private school on Mirador Crescent, a few streets away from his home. Source: Internet

From the age of about six he was a day boy at a dame school in Islington that one of his biographers later described as "for those days a very high-class establishment". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Dame Myra Hess Dame Nellie Melba Dame Rebecca West Dame Sybil Thorndike Dame's violet damehood