mollie house

English

Noun

mollie house (plural mollie houses)

1. Alternative form of molly house
   • 1995, Minaz Jooma, The Alimentary Structures of Incest, page 114:

     Closing down all erotic possibilities other than heterosexual requires the virtual divorce of Robinson Crusoe from the contemporary climate of sodomy trials, the activities of the Societies for the Reformation of Manners, criticism of homosexuality in courtly circles, raids on mollie houses, and documented concerns about sodomy in the Navy.

   • 2007, William M. Kuhn, The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli, page 9:

     In eighteenth-century London there were pubs known as 'mollie houses' where men dressed as women.

   • 2012, William Holden, Secret Societies:

     I am, however, the only real woman to run a 'mollie' house.