dancing school

English

Noun

dancing school (plural dancing schools)

  1. An educational institution that teaches its students how to dance
    Synonyms: dance school, dance studio
  2. (archaic, obsolete, euphemistic) A brothel
    Synonyms: brothel house, whorehouse; see also Thesaurus:brothel
    • 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines:
      "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none."
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