What does dame school mean?

dame school

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

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"Young Williams knew nothing more at the age of 18 than what a twopenny Dame's School in the village could teach him."
"He […] was dispatched to a dame school and then to the local grammar school where he first encountered the sacred mysteries of Greek and Latin."

dame schools (plural) dame's school (alternative)

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