bridewell
Noun
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Noun
bridewell (plural bridewells) (Sometimes capitalised)
- (dated in British, rare elsewhere) A small prison, or a police station that has cells.
- 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. xix:
- Two Fermanagh girls who never laughed were certain that he must have served time in a bridewell, so cold was his expression and so calloused his small hands.
- 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. xix:
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