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padded cell

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padded cell
Noun
a room with padded walls in a psychiatric hospital, in which patients who are likely to injure themselves are placed
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Spanish padded cell [ˈpædɪd-] ncelda acolchada
German padded cell [ˈpædɪd-] nGummizelle f
Italian padded cell [ˈpædɪd-] ncella imbottita

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How will you like to see your mother in a straitjacket an' a padded cell, shut out from the light of the sun an' beaten like a nigger before the war, Willie, beaten an' clubbed like a regular black nigger?
 
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