Mollie House

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Mollie House (plural Mollie Houses)

  1. Alternative form of molly house
    • 1939, Leo Richard Ward, God in an Irish kitchen, page 13:
      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," ...
    • 2012, Philip Nutman, Cities of Night:
      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.
    • 2013, Philip Nutman, Love Sells The Proud Heart's Citadel To Fate: Short Story:
      "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.