dame school

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dame school

(Social Science / Education) (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

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school			On our way to Portland, we passed a 'Magistrate's office,' which amused me, as looking far more like a dame school than any police establishment: for this awful Institution was nothing but a little lazy, good-for-nothing front parlour, open to the street; wherein two or three figures (I presume the magistrate and his myrmidons) were basking in the sunshine, the very effigies of languor and repose. American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context This dialogue took place in Eppie's earlier years, when Silas had to part with her for two hours every day, that she might learn to read at the dame school, after he had vainly tried himself to guide her in that first step to learning. Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context			Damaskeen Damaskin Damasse Damassin Damavand Dambonite Dambose dame Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie Dame Alice Ellen Terry Dame Alicia Markova Dame Barbara Hepworth Dame Daphne du Maurier Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Dame Edith Sitwell Dame Ellen Terry Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Dame Joan Sutherland Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Margot Fonteyn Dame Muriel Spark Dame Myra Hess Dame Nellie Melba Dame Rebecca West dame school Dame Sybil Thorndike dame's rocket dame's violet Damewort damfool Damgalnunna Damiana Damianist Damien Damien de Veuster Damietta daminozide Damkina dammar dammar pine dammar resin Dammara dammed dammit damn damn-all damn-fool Damnability damnable Damnableness			Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Dame Edith Mary Evans Dame Edith Sitwell Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor Dame Elizbeth Taylor Dame Ellen Terry Dame Iris Murdoch Dame Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Dame Joan Sutherland Dame Kelly Holmes Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Margot Dame Margot Fonteyn Dame Margot Fonteyn Dame Marie Rambert Dame Muriel Spark Dame Myra Hess Dame Nellie Melba Dame Ngaio Marsh Dame of the Order of Australia Dame Phyllis Frost Centre Dame Quaker's Club Dame Rebecca West dame school Dame schools Dame Shirley Bassey Dame Sybil Thorndike Dame Sybil Thorndike Dame's Gilliflower dame's rocket dame's rocket dame's rockets Dame's violet Dame's-violet DAMEA DAMEC DAMED DAMEE Damelevières Animations Manifestation Jeunesse Damen Damen Damen Fussball Club Schwamendingen Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga Damenoberbekleidung Dameron, Tadd Dameron-Damron Family Association Dames Dames Dames Dames and Moore Scale Dames and Moore Tornado Scale Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States Dames-violet

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