bridewell的中文意思、音标与词形变化

n. 感化院, 拘留所 [法] 感化院, 拘留所, 监狱

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.