vaulting schools

Noun

vaulting school (plural vaulting schools)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vaulting, school. (A place where one learns to vault.)
   • His three years there were spent chiefly in the study of music, in the Vaulting-school, in dancing; and in quarrelling, studiously, with the authorities, upon all sorts of subjects.1903, Laurence Hutton, Literary Landmarks of Oxford, page 29
2. (obsolete, slang) A brothel.
   • Invite 'em to my Vaulting School,
     The Saints for freedom tell;
     How they may live without Controul,
     With me at Camberwell.
     There all Provision shall be made
     To entertain the best,
     Old Mother Creswel of our Trade,
     For to rub down our Guests;
     Three hundred of the briskest Dames,
     In Park or Field e're...1684, Nathaniel Thompson, “Oates's Bug—Bug—Boarding-School, at Camberwell”, in A choice collection of 120 loyal songs, London