| 单词 | bettering mansion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbettering mansion ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison workhouse?c1475 house of correction1575 bridewell1583 work-jail1619 correction-housec1625 rasp house1651 bettering house1735 bettering mansion1740 penitentiary house1779 penitentiary1807 work farm1835 farm1857 pen1881 prison-industrial complex1965 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen iii. 107 If they are reckon'd only Correction and Bettering Mansions. 1794 M. J. Rhys Let. in J. T. Griffith Rev. M. J. Rhys (1899) xiii. 93 No strong liquors will be admitted within the walls of this bettering mansion. < as lemmas |
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