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finishing school

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Izzard plays a teacher, Thomas Miller, who takes a job at Augusta-Victoria College, a finishing school in the coastal town of Bexhill-on-Sea that’s sort of a cross-cultural experiment between England and Germany.

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Gibbs began as “part finishing school and part party school,” where girls “could escape for a year between college and getting married and let their hair down.”

Le Femme Finishing School helps transwomen find their inner beauty, no matter their age.

And much of the credit to her transformation is owed to a finishing school that caters to women just like her.

“I always read him as an older kind of a guy on the cusp of finishing school and finding a job,” he said.

My take on that is that I always read him as an older kind of a guy on the cusp of finishing school and finding a job.

It's hard to believe but there was an actual finishing school for explorers.

When Avice went back to Sandbourne to the finishing school they kept up the acquaintance in secret.

When Fall comes I mean to take you East and put you in some good finishing school.

It was not a democratic institution, but the finishing school of the future legislators and experts in the science of government.

Adversity was to be the finishing school of his studies—nature the book presented.

The finishing school for our aviators was in France, where the training was conducted in Nieuports and other fighting machines.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to finishing school, such as: boarding school, institute, prep school, secondary school, seminary, and brainery.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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