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leaping houses

leaping houses is the plural 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...

Questions about leaping houses

What is leaping houses the plural of?
Leaping houses is the plural of leaping house.

Words near leaping houses in the dictionary

  1. leaping ahead
  2. leaping at
  3. leaping dandruff
  4. leaping for joy
  5. leaping house
  6. leaping houses
  7. leaping into action
  8. Leaping Lena
  9. leaping lizards
  10. leaping out
  11. leaping through hoops

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