warder
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“Lockdown was probably the oddest experience in my life,” says McGowran, who spent nearly 26 years in the Royal Air Force before becoming a yeoman warder.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
The warder was a former nun called Pat Cairns, who had fallen in love with Hindley.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2018
If, however, they are to be sent to prison, during the daytime they should be in a workshop or schoolroom with a warder.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018
Her stories take the figure of the imprisoned “madwoman,” as found in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” or Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” and make her the warder of her own jail.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
One day, the warder asked this comrade for his jacket so that he could lay it on the grass and sit on it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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