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writing school noun Formerly, a short term of school for which a small fee was charged to teach rudiments of penmanship, often conducted by an itinerant teacher.

1922 TN CW Ques 1302 (Grainger Co TN) We also had the ten days writing school, sometimes a ten days singing school and we also had an occasional ten days arithmetic school. 1939 Hall Coll (Hartford TN) I went to a writing school about a couple of days. I got some copy and I kept fooling with them copies till I could begin to write, and I got so I could write a pretty good hand. 1970 Mull Mt Yarns 11 In some sections a two-week “writing” school would be held where, for a small fee, children and adults would be taught to write. 1982 Slone How We Talked 79 Each summer there would be a few weeks of school just to teach anyone that wanted to, to learn to write. It was called “writing school.”