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house of correction

house of correction

Euph. a prison. He was sentenced to five years in the county's house of correction. The Jones House of Correction was built in the 1950s, when violent crime was much less common here.
See also: house, of

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Stefanus-Dutch
Harun-Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian
Guillaumegee-OMFrench
MarkÉTa-Czech, Slovak
Mikha'el-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Joslyn['dʒɔslin]
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