Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Leaping-house
subs. (old).—A brothel.
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1598. SHAKESPEARE, 1 Henry IV., i. 2. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of LEAPING HOUSES.
