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borstal::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | reform school, reformatory, training school |
Examples of borstal
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If I had tasted Malory Towers, now, to my despairing mind, I had been sent to borstal.
From the guardian.co.uk
The story of the borstal boy who turns to racing has been relocated to last year's riots.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cooper pleaded guilty on legal advice and spent nine months in borstal.
From the guardian.co.uk
I've told all these stories before, especially my time in a borstal.
From the newsshopper.co.uk
The excursions ended when the teenager got into trouble with the law and was sent to borstal.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Another schoolboy is sent to a borstal for writing a letter in which he explained the facts of life.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Linda also lived in a convent and a borstal as a teenager.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Black was sentenced to a year of borstal training at Polmont.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Brendan Behan likewise recorded the powerful impression the novel made on him while he was imprisoned in a borstal.
From the independent.co.uk
- Formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison
- A borstal was a type of youth prison in the United Kingdom, run by the Prison Service and intended to reform seriously delinquent young people. The word is sometimes used loosely to apply to other kinds of youth institution or reformatory, such as Approved Schools and Detention Centres. ...
- N. 1. A prison for juveniles. This is also known as an approved school. This leads to the pun about ``well approved schools.''
