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dame-school
[ deym-skool ]
noun
- a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
dame school
noun
- (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dame-school1
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Example Sentences
British soldiers in gay uniforms were seen about the roads, and Mistress Kent's dame school did not open as usual.
Our picture shows us a corner of a dame school where a naughty child is in a fit of temper.
It was like nothing so much as a dame school, even to the various tutors and governesses ordered her by the Czarina.
The dame-school, which was about a mile from the village, was a long, low house with a thatched roof.
The mistress of a dame-school can hear spelling-lessons; and any hedge-schoolmaster can drill boys in the multiplication-table.
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