women's college
noun
(In North America) a university or (in the United Kingdom) a college (at Cambridge, Oxford, etc.) that admits only women as students.
- In the United Kingdom most such colleges became co-educational in the late 20th cent., with a few exceptions, notably Newnham College, Cambridge..
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in ‘George Eliot’ (1819–1880), novelist (real name Mary Ann Evans).
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