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单词 Pentonvillain
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Pentonvillain

/ˈpɛntənˌvɪlən /
noun Australian historical, derogatory
A convict sentenced in Britain to transportation, but required first to serve eighteen months in Pentonville Prison, London (or another reformatory prison) receiving moral and religious instruction and learning a trade, before being sent to Australia on a conditional pardon: the British Government continued to send cargoes of Pentonvillains...
  • These exiles were quickly dubbed Pentonvillains—a play on the name of the British prison Pentonville, from which the first exiles had come.
  • They claimed the system "had seriously impaired the mental faculties of several of the Pentonvillains, as they were termed."
  • Not all diggers were diggers—there were bushrangers and Pentonvillains only too eager to relieve the diggers of their gains.
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