dame school
English
Alternative forms
- dame's school
Noun
dame school (plural dame schools)
- (now historical) A school for children, run by a woman.
- 1793, Jane Austen, ‘The Generous Curate’, Juvenilia:
- Young Williams knew nothing more at the age of 18 than what a twopenny Dame's School in the village could teach him.
- 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan p. 189:
- 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.
- 1793, Jane Austen, ‘The Generous Curate’, Juvenilia:
Anagrams
- schooldame