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conservatoire
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conservatoire [kon-serv-a-twahr]
Noun
a school of music [French]
Conservatory, Conservatoire a school of advanced studies, usually in one of the fine arts, hence, the students and professors collectively; a repository of knowledge.
Examples: conservatory of gauds and baubles, 1656; of law, 1642; of music [Conservatoire de Paris, 1795]; of rights and privileges, 1790; of senses, 1656; of snow and ice, 1626.
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Noun1.conservatoire - a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts
conservatory
art school - a school specializing in art
music school - a school specializing in music
schoolhouse, school - a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"


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Founded in 1822, the Royal Academy of Music is one of the world's most celebrated musical conservatoires, With its gradual growth and increase in student numbers, it had outgrown its original premises, in a 1911 building by Ernest George on Marylebone Road.
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Most of them are students at British conservatoires, or finalists from international players' competitions.
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