molly-house

plural molly-houses

1. alternativeAlternative form of molly house.

   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, David Higgs, Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600, page 98

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   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.

   2002, Cabinet - Issues 6-9, page 30

   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.'

   2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain