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A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.obsolete
- The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.
- He is almost a tourist of his own book. There is a hint of the fad a couple of centuries ago for visiting madhouses in search of the exotic.
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A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place.broadlyfiguratively
- This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (
madhouse
'mædhaus4 senses · 532 ms
Level C2