dame school

English

Alternative forms
  • dame's school

Noun

dame school (plural dame schools)

  1. (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, page 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.

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