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ˈprison-house
A house of imprisonment; a building that is or serves as a prison. Often fig.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 804/6 Hic carcer, a presunhowse. 1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 850 So [he] put them both into the prison-house, and made the dores be shut after them. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 15, I am forbid To tell the secrets of my Prison-House. 1784Cowper Task ii. 661 So fare we in this prison-house, the world. 1803–6Wordsw. Intim. Immort. 68 Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy. 1864A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 39 In the old prison-house of the town. 1902Daily Chron. 25 Apr. 6/5 To escape from the prison-house of London streets and factories into the ‘great spaces of nature’. |