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place of confinement

NOUN
close quarters
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Meanwhile, Novosti simply states that "Australia is terrible" while gleefully reporting on a band of Djokovic supporters who have been singing and dancing outside his place of confinement.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2022

A freshly installed gray carpet covers the wood floor and has the chemical reek of glue, which adds to the unsettling sense of the gallery as a holding cell or place of confinement.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

As we approached our new place of confinement on the northern New Guinea coast ... we saw a flight of American planes coming at us.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "first degree" is the arrest, and the "second degree" the taking of a prisoners to a place of confinement.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had Daedalus, a great architect and inventor, construct a place of confinement for him from which escape was impossible.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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