molly-house
molly-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
Forms of molly-house
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- Molly-house is the alternative form of molly house.
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