Bridewell
Bridewell noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: the citadel was later converted into a bridewell to house the city's growing criminal population
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Synonyms for Bridewell
Prison
Prison noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: the ongoing debate whether drug users should go to prison
Bridewell and prison are semantically related (British) in historical topic. You can use "Bridewell" instead a noun "Prison", if it concerns topics such as youth custody centre.
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Connor finds himself in a depressing recreation of Bridewell Prison in Assassin's Creed III, after a violent altercation leads to a cross-city pursuit that gets him arrested and framed.
Source: Prison Episode
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