leaping house
Noun
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Noun
leaping house (plural leaping houses)
- (obsolete) A brothel.
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, act 1, sc. 2:
- Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
- 2003, M. S. Morton and M. Morton, The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex, Insomniac Press, ISBN 9781894663519, page 221:
- In the late sixteenth century, the word nunnery also came to mean brothel. . . . Around the same time, the synonymous leaping-house also emerged, which anticipated the eighteenth-century terms vaulting-school and pushing-school, all implying vigorous acts of sex.
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, act 1, sc. 2:
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