finishing schools
Deportment training institutions
A finishing school is a private institution that prepares young women for entry into upper-class society.
The curriculum emphasizes etiquette, social graces, conversation, and domestic arts rather than academic subjects.
The term now often carries ironic or dated connotations: This isn't a finishing school—we expect serious academic work.
Figuratively, any experience that polishes someone's manners or refinement: The diplomatic corps was his finishing school.
- deportmentManner and conduct
- mannersCustoms of polite conduct
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- good breedingCultivated social refinement
- flower arrangingArt of composing bouquets
proper etiquette · curtsy · social skills · social graces · poise · dance · coming out · elocution · debutantes · young ladies · education · academies · grace · refinements · elegance · grooming standards · charm · posture
- schoolscollege, academy, university, preschool, kindergarten
- Victorian eraparlour, Victorian etiquette, etiquette, parlor games, courtship
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- outdated thingsflip phones, VHS tapes, fax machines, dial-up, typewriters
- education historyeducation reforms, educational reforms, medieval universities, schoolhouse, schoolmaster
finishing schoolsvocational schools
Institutions teaching practical job skills
trade schools · vocational training · technical colleges · apprenticeships · job training programs
finishing schoolsreform schools
Institutions for juvenile offenders
workhouses · charity schools · settlement houses · night schools · public schools
finishing schoolsmilitary academies
Schools training future officers
boot camps · military schools · naval academies · West Point · engineering schools
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