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dancing school

dancing school noun: an educational institution that teaches its students how to dance.

Noun

dancing school (plural dancing schools)

  1. An educational institution that teaches its students how to dance
  2. (archaic, euphemistic, obsolete) A brothel
    • "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is...1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines

Synonyms of dancing school

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Forms of dancing school

pluraldancing schools

Questions about dancing school

What does dancing school mean?
Dancing school means an educational institution that teaches its students how to dance.
What part of speech is dancing school?
Dancing school is a noun.
What is the plural of dancing school?
The plural of dancing school is dancing schools.

Words near dancing school in the dictionary

  1. dancing master's kits
  2. dancing on nothing
  3. dancing on someone's grave
  4. dancing out
  5. dancing plant
  6. dancing school
  7. dancing the Tyburn jig
  8. dancing to a different tune
  9. dancing to a new tune
  10. dancing to someone's tune
  11. dancing upon nothing

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