Meaning of mollie house | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

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

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

“After the year the little girl is gone and the Mollie House serves no tea, and in another tea-shop a good practical woman looking for tips tells us, "They had good enough things in the hotel without that, and they closed it up," ...”

“In the half-light cast from the doorway of a Mollie House I saw she was no older than six; all in rags, dirty, barefoot and hollow-cheeked.”

“"Your Ladyship," Manfred said, taking the Baroness by the hand, bowed and kissed her fingers with a flourish I can only describe as both theatrical and of the feminine manner, a touch I found both surprising and distasteful, for the Baroness had not inform me Lord Manfred was a habitué of the Mollie House.”

“Maybe he was murdered the first night he ran away or maybe he was kidnapped and sold to a Mollie house where men dressed as women.”

“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.”

“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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