vaulting school

vaulting school
a) A place where one learns to vault. <!, 1850, Edward Wedlake Brayley, with John Britton and Edward W. Brayley, junior, as assistants, A Topographical History of Surrey, volume 5, page 21:

In 1637, he took lessons at a dancing and vaulting school, the master of which, William Stokes, published a book intituled &mdash; "The Vaulting Master, or the Art of Vaulting reduced to a Method, comprised under certain Rules," 1655, now extremely rare.

b) A brothel.

While at Oxford, Evelyn was "admitted into the dancing and vaulting school," and began also to "look on the rudiments of music," in which, he says, "he afterward arrived to some formal knowledge, though to small perfection of hand,[...]"!


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