molly-house

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molly-house (plural molly-houses)

  1. Alternative form of molly house
    • 2002, David Higgs, Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600, page 98:
      On the other hand, at least one man believed the story and said that his fellow neighbors had stopped going to Whide's when they heard that he kept a molly-house.
    • 2002, Cabinet - Issues 6-9, page 30:
      While an established molly-house such as Mother Clap's served as many as forty men on any given night and provided a back room for more illicit activities, a molly-house could be as informal as someone's private room in an otherwise 'straight' public house.
    • 2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain:
      On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'