A private school intended to furnish young women with the social skills and cultural education needed in order to fulfill successfully a woman's traditional role in polite society
All she needs is a year or two at a fashionable finishing school, so that at eighteen she can come out with éclat, put in Aunt Clara.
A finishing school is a private school where rich or upper-class young women are taught manners and other social skills that are considered to be suitable for them. a Swiss finishing school. where the Princess of Wales attended finishing school. a private school where rich girls go to learn social skills