sponging-house

短语

[法] 债务人拘留所

词形变化

sponging-houses 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.

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