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dame-school

[ deym-skool ]

noun

  1. 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

  1. (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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dame-school1

First recorded in 1810–20
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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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