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  • 111Prison yard — Yard Yard, n. [OE. yard, yerd, AS. geard; akin to OFries. garda garden, OS. gardo garden, gard yard, D. gaard garden, G. garten, OHG. garto garden, gari inclosure, Icel. gar[eth]r yard, house, Sw. g[*a]rd, Dan. gaard, Goth. gards a house, garda… …

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  • 112Place des Martyrs de la Résistance — La Place des Martyrs de la Résistance est une petite place située dans le coeur historique de Montpellier. Cette place possède en outre, un parking soutterain de plus de 2000 places permettant à ceux qui doivent aller en centre ville d éviter les …

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  • 113prison — pris•on [[t]ˈprɪz ən[/t]] n. 1) a building for the confinement of accused persons awaiting trial or persons sentenced after conviction 2) any place of confinement or involuntary restraint 3) imprisonment • Etymology: bef. 1150; ME prison, earlier …

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  • 114Place des Arts (Thonon les bains) — Thonon les Bains Thonon les Bains Vue de la mairie de Thonon les Bains …

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  • 115Prison (hockey sur glace) — Banc de pénalité Banc de pénalité. Le box de gauche est occupé, celui de droite vide. Le banc de pénalité (souvent appelé sin bin en anglais) désigne au hockey sur glace, un espace enclos situé à l extérieur des bandes, entre les deux lignes… …

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  • 116prison — [12] Like comprehend, prehensile, etc, prison goes back ultimately to Latin praehendere ‘seize’. From this was derived the noun praehensiō ‘seizure’, later contracted to prēnsiō, which passed into Old French as prisun. By now it had come to be… …

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  • 117prison — [12] Like comprehend, prehensile, etc, prison goes back ultimately to Latin praehendere ‘seize’. From this was derived the noun praehensiō ‘seizure’, later contracted to prēnsiō, which passed into Old French as prisun. By now it had come to be… …

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  • 118prison breach — noun or prison breaking : a common law crime that is now often modified by statute and that involves escape of a prisoner by force and violence from a place in which he is lawfully in custody compare rescue …

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  • 119prison — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin prehension , prehensio act of seizing, from prehendere to seize more at get Date: 12th century 1. a state of confinement or captivity 2. a place of confinement especially for… …

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  • 120place of correction —    obsolete    a prison    Named for an honest, but usually unfulfilled, aspiration:     Your places of correction could be as quiet as Chelsea Hospital. (Ustinov, 1971) …

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