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mollie-house

mollie-house is the alternative form of molly house.

Meaning of molly house

Noun

molly house (plural molly houses)

  1. (historical, slang) A tavern or other establishment in 18th and 19th century England where homosexuals could meet for various activities, such as cross-dressing and sexual encounters.
    • Just west of Charing Cross (where a molly named Tolson kept a brandy shop in the late 1720s, and where Whale and Horner were pilloried for keeping a molly house), we come to St James's Square and Pall Mall, ...1992, Rictor Norton, Mother Clap's molly house: the gay subculture in England, page 90

Forms of mollie-house

pluralmollie-houses

Questions about mollie-house

What is mollie-house the alternative form of?
Mollie-house is the alternative form of molly house.

Words near mollie-house in the dictionary

  1. mollicute
  2. mollicutes
  3. mollie
  4. mollie house
  5. mollie houses
  6. mollie-house
  7. mollie-houses
  8. mollied
  9. mollient
  10. molliently
  11. Mollier diagram

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