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Mollie house
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Noun
en molly house.
en 2006 David Thompson Tom Shardlow 18 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.
en 2012 London: The Concise Biography Peter Ackroyd 329 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.
en 2016 London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime Fergus Linnane 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.