(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.

(dated) A school where lessons in etiquette and social skills are taught, often as brief courses for children.

Alternative spelling of vaulting school

Alternative spelling of pushing school

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vaulting, school. (A place where one learns to vault.) / (obsolete, slang) A brothel.

Alternative spelling of schoolmate

Of or pertaining to a new school style, way of thinking, or method.

(informal, also attributive) A style, way of thinking, or method for accomplishing a task that is typical of the current era, as opposed to former eras.

(transitive) To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in lieu of sending them to a public school or private educational institution. / (intransitive) To be educated at home.

A school within a private domestic place, rather than in a public facility or private institution. / (US, dated) A boarding school.