Usually means: Etiquette and social skills training.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word finishing school:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. finishing school: Merriam-Webster
  2. finishing school: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. finishing school: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. finishing school: Collins English Dictionary
  5. finishing school: Vocabulary.com
  6. finishing-school: Wordnik
  7. finishing school: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. finishing-school, finishing school: Wiktionary
  9. finishing school: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. finishing school: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. finishing school: Dictionary.com
  12. Finishing School, Finishing school (India), Finishing school, The Finishing School (Spark novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. finishing school: Rhymezone
  14. finishing school: FreeDictionary.org
  15. finishing school: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. finishing school: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. finishing school: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finishing school: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. finishing school: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (finishing school)

noun:  (dated) 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.

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