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Meaning of dame school | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A school for children, run by a woman.

historical

Examples

“Young Williams knew nothing more at the age of 18 than what a twopenny Dame's School in the village could teach him.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Dame's Delight dame's rocket dame's violet Damed damehood damel

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