单词 | prison fort |
释义 | > as lemmasprison fort prison fort n. ΚΠ 1853 N. Wiseman Ess. III. 20 An African..prison-fort, where galley-slaves are detained. 1993 Boston Globe (Nexis) 23 June 2 In the Spanish prison fort, many of the imprisoned army officers were once involved in intelligence or antisubversive work. 2004 Morning Star (Nexis) 22 Mar. 2 President Thabo Mbeki inaugurated South Africa's new Constitutional Court building yesterday in a notorious 100-year-old prison fort where Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and captured Boer war generals were all detained. < as lemmas |
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