"molly house" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Rictor Norton, Mother Clap's molly house: the gay subculture in England, page 90",
          "text": "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, ...",
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          "text": "In a vivid illustration of the dynamics created by sexual deviance, molly houses were a defense against the pressures of prejudice, but their visibility inspired new hostility.",
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          "ref": "2007, Thomas A. Foster, Long Before Stonewall, page 99",
          "text": "One visitor to a molly house in the Old Bailey observed “men calling one another 'my dear' and hugging, kissing, and tickling each other as if they were a mixture of wanton males and females, and assuming effeminate voices and airs.",
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          "text": "Just — we must fuck who we will. Else what's the point of a molly house?",
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        {
          "word": "mollie house"
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        {
          "word": "mollie-house"
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          "word": "Mollie House"
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          "text": "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, ...",
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