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Mollie house en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of molly house.
Maybe he was murdered the first night he ran away or maybe he was kidnapped and sold to a Mollie house where men dressed as women.
2006, Tom Shardlow, David Thompson, page 18:There were public houses in the vicinity where 'posture dancers' performed an eighteenth-century version of striptease; there were houses of pleasure which specialised in flagellation, and there were Mollie houses which were frequented by homosexuals.
2012, Peter Ackroyd, London: The Concise Biography, page 329:There were also 'Mollie houses' and clubs for homosexuals, among them the Bull and Butcher, the Spiller's Head, the Fountain, the Sun and the Bull's Head.
2016, Fergus Linnane, London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime:
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