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borstal
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A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth . In India, it is known as a borstal school . Borstals were run by HM Prison Service and intended to reform seriously delinquent young people . The word is sometimes ...
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n. 1 (context historical English) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983. 2 (context British Ireland English) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After a spell in borstal he was introduced to influential figures in the London underworld of the mid-60s. ▪ As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.
Usage examples of borstal.
I want her out of this whole risk-area of clinks and clinics and soup-queues, of hostels and borstals and homes full of mad women.
I had visions of ending up in Borstal or prison or being the new young meat in an overcrowded remand wing.
The promotion of cottage industries, the prevention of juvenile street trading, the extension of the Borstal prison system, the furtherance of vague talkative religious movements the fostering of inter-racial ENTENTES, all found in him a tireless exponent, a fluent and entertaining, though perhaps not very convincing, advocate.
Georgie only reminded her how easy it would be for her daughter to end up being put in a borstal institution, like this one at Aylesbury.
Lenny, who had been to Borstal and was proud of it, and Cecil, a far-gone alcoholic of about thirty-five.
Sharp spell of Borstal training to teach you the mysteries of housebreaking, and then a steady life in the Nick.
Sheldrake, had got a Fourth in History and was only chosen for his present post because he was a member of the Freemasons, or that the yapping little cocker spaniel of a man who tried to teach us football had been dismissed from a job at Borstal for suspected buggery and even and this was a story which lasted with considerable embellishments throughout the whole of one long, wet summer term that the angry string bean of a man who taught us French had been a close friend of Burgess and Maclean and lived in daily terror of being arrested as an old Cambridge leftie and still-active Soviet spy.
Dunnet is a senior officer of the Special Branch of New Scotland Yard and a member of Interpol and he has accumulated enough evidence against you, for aiding and abetting criminals, to ensure that you'll spend the next few years in a remand home and Borstal.
Sent to borstal in 1948 for breaking and entering, theft and causing actual bodily harm.
Again, no youthful prisoner under twenty-one years of age, no matter how bad his record, is allowed the benefit of Borstal training unless he, too, be sound in mind and body.
The promotion of cottage industries, the prevention of juvenile street trading, the extension of the Borstal prison system, the furtherance of vague talkative religious movements the fostering of inter-racial ententes, all found in him a tireless exponent, a fluent and entertaining, though perhaps not very convincing, advocate.