mollie house
mollie house is the alternative form of molly house.
Meaning of molly house
Noun
molly house (plural molly houses)
- 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
Noun (1) capitalized: Mollie House
Mollie House (plural Mollie Houses)
- Alternative form of molly house.
- After the year the little girl is gone and the Mollie House serves no tea, and in another tea-shop a good practical woman looking for tips tells us, "They had good enough things in the hotel without that, and they closed it up," ...1939, Leo Richard Ward, God in an Irish kitchen, page 13
- In the half-light cast from the doorway of a Mollie House I saw she was no older than six; all in rags, dirty, barefoot and hollow-cheeked.2012, Philip Nutman, Cities of Night
Noun (2) capitalized: Mollie house
Mollie house (plural Mollie houses)
- 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
Forms of mollie house
| plural | mollie houses |
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| plural | Mollie Houses |
| plural | Mollie houses |
Questions about mollie house
- What is mollie house the alternative form of?
- Mollie house is the alternative form of molly house.
- What part of speech is mollie house?
- Mollie house is a noun.
- What is the plural of mollie house?
- The plural of mollie house is mollie houses.
Words near mollie house in the dictionary
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