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borstal

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun borstal has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

borstaln. 
     a British reform school for youths between 16 and 22.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

borstal, n. Brit. hist. an institution for reforming and training young offenders.

Usage
Now replaced by detention centre and youth custody centre.
Etymology
Borstal in S. England, where the first of these was established

THESAURUS

borstal

POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal institution, borstal school, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp, condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, remand school, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school
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