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lunatic asylum  noun datedA psychiatric hospital.Until the 1970s some governments consigned those people who came under their control to ‘quiet and chronic’ wards in lunatic asylums or hospitals for the insane, and forgot them....- It opened as the County Lunatic Asylum in 1774, one of the first purpose-built lunatic asylums in the country.
- Well-to-do Victorians used to pay to tour lunatic asylums, deriving great amusement from the inmates.
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