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leaping-house

leaping-house is the alternative spelling of leaping house.

Meaning of leaping house

Noun

leaping house (plural leaping houses)

  1. (obsolete) A brothel.
    • 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.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of leaping-house

pluralleaping-houses

Questions about leaping-house

What is leaping-house the alternative spelling of?
Leaping-house is the alternative spelling of leaping house.

Words near leaping-house in the dictionary

  1. leaping lizards
  2. leaping out
  3. leaping through hoops
  4. leaping to mind
  5. leaping up
  6. leaping-house
  7. leaping-houses
  8. leapingly
  9. leapings
  10. leapling
  11. leaplings

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