English to Irish Meaning of borstal - Borstal

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Definitions of borstal in English

Noun(1) formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison

Examples of borstal in English

(1) The governor of a borstal institution tries to reform a group of juvenile delinquents through sympathy rather than punishment.(2) Simply put, things don't exactly go well at borstal .(3) Famously banned from the BBC's Play for Today slot in the 1970s, Clarke's harrowing drama about life inside a borstal was remade two years later as an equally notorious film.(4) He was involved in crime from an early age, being sent to approved schools and borstal before ending up prison.(5) In 1846 young offenders were separated from adults and sent to industrial schools, the precursors of borstal institutions, for treatment and rehabilitation.(6) When I was young, kids who had been to borstal had a mark on their temple with Indian ink so you knew who they were.(7) Then it felt like everything stopped, because I felt like I had no support and was really depressed for a few months about the prospect of going to borstal or somewhere.(8) After its aristocratic owners moved on in the late 1930s, the house served in turns as a farming school, a centre for displaced people, a boys' private school and a borstal .(9) When someone informed on him he was charged with handling stolen goods and sentenced to one year in borstal .(10) The punishment that we all most feared was being sent to a borstal .(11) From approved school he graduated through detention centre to borstal , finally winding up in prison.(12) For years, he had been in and out of the authorities' grasp, in borstal , and on a particular Swedish brand of psychiatric probation.(13) ├ö├ç├┐I thought he must be on day-release from borstal ,├ö├ç├û recalls Belcher.(14) He would have remained a borstal boy with a grudge against society who would probably have ended up in prison for a single sadistic killing.(15) We performed in schools, old people's homes, borstals and prisons.(16) Let's build more hospitals, prisons and borstals .

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borscht

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