Mollie house

English

Noun

Mollie house (plural Mollie houses)

  1. Alternative form of molly house
    • 2006, Tom Shardlow, David Thompson, page 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.
    • 2012, Peter Ackroyd, London: The Concise Biography, page 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.
    • 2016, Fergus Linnane, London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime:
      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.
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