bridewells
📖 中文释义
- (bridewell 的第三人称 -s形式) n. 感化院, 拘留所
- [法] 感化院, 拘留所, 监狱
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
原形 bridewell
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- -s form of bridewell
- n. A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly
- persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's
- (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal
- workhouse.