1) Civic Center, Manhattan 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Old nick 5) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 6) Word of purely Anglo origin
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1) Jail 2) Prison
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contraction of St. Bridget's Well in London, site of a prison until 1869. Bridewell came to mean any house of correction.
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house of corrections; jail
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• (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride`s (or Bridget`s) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
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see *house of correction
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Bride'well noun A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near
St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well , in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
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Bridewell was a house of correction in Blackfriars, London. The building took its name from a holy well of medicinal water once existing between Fleet Street and the Thames, and dedicated to St Bride. Henry VIII built a palace to accommodate the Emperor Charles V on the site in 1522. This building was converted into a hospital to serve the poor and...
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Bridewell was formerly a famous house of correction in Blackfriars, London, latterly the term has been used as a general term for houses of this kind. The building took its name from a well once existing between Fleet Street and the Thames, and dedicated to St Bride. Henry VIII built on this site, in 1522, a palace for the accommodation of the Empe...
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