| 单词 | female factory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfemale factory b. Australian slang. A prison or detention centre for women, esp. that at Parramatta, New South Wales, where cloth was manufactured by inmates. Also more fully female factory. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 1805 Sydney Gaz. 8 Dec. 1/4 Catharine Malone was accused..with riotous and disorderly behaviour..; for which she was ordered to work twelve months in the cloth factory at Parramatta.] 1806 Sydney Gaz. 13 July Catherine Eyres..ordered to the Factory at Parramatta for the term of six months. 1826 Austral. (Sydney) 5 Jan. 4/1 To the care of the lady of that delightful mansion, ycleped the ‘female factory’. 1874 M. Clarke His Nat. Life ii. iii. 91 In the factory—a prison for females—the vilest abuses were committed. 1913 J. C. L. Fitzpatrick Good Old Days of Molong 89 The ‘factory’ at Parramatta..was really a depot in which female prisoners were kept. 1930 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Ten Creeks Run v. 68 He was a man of money and consequence in the town, his wife his able partner, and it long since forgotten that one had had convict beginnings and the other supposed to have been born in the ‘Female Factory’ at Parramatta. 2008 J. Boyce Van Diemen's Land ii. 131 Few punishments [for female convicts] were legally available before the female factories were eventually constructed in the late 1820s and early 1830s. < as lemmas |
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