"finishing school" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Nobel Prize Women in Science, Carol Publishing Group, page 3",
          "text": "Until the 1920s, most European high schools for girls were finishing schools.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 January 2, Maureen O’Connor, “The Etiquette Guru Who Broke Up With a Boyfriend Over Text”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "On the advice of a well-heeled friend from Indonesia, she then decamped to Switzerland to attend the Institut Villa Pierrefeu. “They call it ‘the finishing school that refuses to be finished,’” Ms. Ho explained, the last in a dying form of pedagogy that asks wealthy women to scrutinize the folds in napkins with an intensity akin to Watson and Crick studying the double helix.",
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        "A private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society."
      ],
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          "private",
          "private"
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          "school",
          "school"
        ],
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          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "women",
          "women"
        ],
        [
          "social",
          "social"
        ],
        [
          "skills",
          "skills"
        ],
        [
          "cultural",
          "cultural"
        ],
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "polite society",
          "polite society"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "charm school"
        },
        {
          "word": "finishing-school"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
          "word": "neitikouIu"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Mädchenpensionat"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "prywatna wychowawcza szkoła dla dziewczyn"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "institút blagoródnyx devíc",
          "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "институ́т благоро́дных деви́ц"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "finishing school"
}

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          "ref": "1998, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Nobel Prize Women in Science, Carol Publishing Group, page 3",
          "text": "Until the 1920s, most European high schools for girls were finishing schools.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2023 January 2, Maureen O’Connor, “The Etiquette Guru Who Broke Up With a Boyfriend Over Text”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "On the advice of a well-heeled friend from Indonesia, she then decamped to Switzerland to attend the Institut Villa Pierrefeu. “They call it ‘the finishing school that refuses to be finished,’” Ms. Ho explained, the last in a dying form of pedagogy that asks wealthy women to scrutinize the folds in napkins with an intensity akin to Watson and Crick studying the double helix.",
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      ],
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        "A private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society."
      ],
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          "private",
          "private"
        ],
        [
          "school",
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        ],
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        ],
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          "women",
          "women"
        ],
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          "social",
          "social"
        ],
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          "skills",
          "skills"
        ],
        [
          "cultural",
          "cultural"
        ],
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          "education",
          "education"
        ],
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          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
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        ]
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        "(dated) A private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "charm school"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "finishing-school"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
      "word": "neitikouIu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Mädchenpensionat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prywatna wychowawcza szkoła dla dziewczyn"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "institút blagoródnyx devíc",
      "sense": "a private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "институ́т благоро́дных деви́ц"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finishing school"
}