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Definition von leaping-house im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Alternative spelling of leaping house
- A brothel
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.