Meanings
plural dancing schools
- An educational institution that teaches its students how to dance
Synonyms: dance school, dance studio
- archaiceuphemisticobsoleteA brothel
1 more example
"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."
1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of ValentinesSynonyms: brothel house, whorehouse, academy, bagnio, bawdy house, bawdy-house, bawdyhouse, bordello
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn educational institution that teaches its students how to dance
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