Meaning Of The Word Dame school

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dame school in British English
noun: (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

dame-school in American English
noun: a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home

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