Meaning of vaulting school | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vaulting, school. (A place where one learns to vault.)
2. A brothel.
   obsolete, slang

Examples

“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.”

“Prince Charles must have visited the vaulting school during his stay in Oxford from the end of November 1642 to July 1643, [...]”

“He's going to go to a vaulting school at the University of Kansas this summer, Walls said. That should help.”

“Despite no adequate practice facilities Dale has quietly emerged as the area's best vaulting school.”

“With a total of 10 pole vaulters Chesapeake might also be the state's biggest vaulting school helping to reinvigorate a sport said to be on its deathbed as recently as two years ago.”

“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 fell: Whose Amorous Eyes shall charm the flames O'th' Saints at Camberwell.”

“And some young Cracks, who waiting never fail, Commence Grave Bauds and keep a Vaulting School, Where Callow Youths their Health and Mony fool.”

“At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]”

“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.”

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