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borstal
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borstal
Noun
(formerly, in Britain) a prison for offenders aged 15 to 21 [after Borstal, village in Kent where the first institution was founded]
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Noun1.borstal - formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison
reform school, reformatory, training school - correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders
Translations
borstal [ˈbɔːstl] n (BRIT) → reformatorio (de menores)
borstal [ˈbɔːstl] n (Brit) → maison f de correction
borstal [ˈbɔːstl] (Brit) n (formerly) → Besserungsanstalt f
borstal [ˈbɔːstl] n (BRIT) → riformatorio


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Like Betjeman, they ruthlessly describe places as they are: thus the setting of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, the finest Rococo fantasy in England, is a 'cultural sink in which successive governments have been able to drop prisons, borstals, army camps and sinister experimental institutions'.
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