"Mollie house" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Mollie houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Mollie house (plural Mollie houses)
  1. Alternative form of molly house Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: molly house
    Sense id: en-Mollie_house-en-noun-guj72ESF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012, Peter Ackroyd, London: The Concise Biography, page 329",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Fergus Linnane, London's Underworld: Three Centuries of Vice and Crime",
          "text": "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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