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Borstal   Listen
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Borstal  n.  A British reform school for youths between 16 and 22.





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"Borstal" Quotes from Famous Books



... pictured so much, is somewhat disappointing. There is such an absence of anything suggestive of palaces and streets. Frankly, the ruins of the cement works at Frindsbury are, pictorially, far more suggestive. I have always said that the hanging gardens of Borstal knocked spots off the hanging gardens of Babylon, and now I know it. So much for a ...
— A Dweller in Mesopotamia - Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden • Donald Maxwell


Words linked to "Borstal" :   reform school, reformatory, training school


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